Some say the loving and the devouring are all the same thing.

-Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis

It was not at all like the agonies I had endured before and have endured since. I did not weep nor wring my hands. I was like water put into a bottle and left in a cellar: utterly motionless, never to be drunk, poured out, spilled or shaken. The days were endless. The very shadows seemed nailed to the ground as if the sun no longer moved.

-Till We Have Faces by C. S. Lewis