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Here There Be Spoilers of Great Literature

“New York is an ugly city, a dirty city. Its climate is a scandal, its politics are used to frighten children, its traffic is madness, its competition is murderous. But there is one thing about it— once you have lived in New York and it has become your home, no place else is good enough.”

—   Megan McCafferty, Second Helpings

“I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can’t stop them. They leave me and I love them more.”

—   Maurice Sendak

“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”

—   T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party  (via ponceau)

(Source: larmoyante, via englishmajormade)

“and that’s the beauty of books. In so many ways, they never really end.”

“Love is never better than the lover.”

—   Claudia, The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”

—   Pilate, Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison

“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”

—   Neil Gaiman
(via acaya)

(Source: kari-shma, via dropitlikefscottt)