“Unsupervised reading is a blessing for certain kind of child” – Victor LaValle, ‘The Changeling’

“A bad fairy tale has some simple goddamn moral. A great fairy tale tells the truth.” – Victor LaValle, ‘The Changeling’

“It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation” – Gabriel García Márquez, ‘100 Years of Solitude’

“Yes, reader—the best hot dog in Chicago is prepared by a father-daughter team with less than a year in the business. I think that’s a beautiful thing.” – Jamie Loftus, ‘Raw Dog’

“He looked…found her only in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude. He would spend whole hours…listening to the music…” – Gabriel García Márquez, ‘100 Years of Solitude’

“…she would never marry a man who was so simple that he had wasted almost an hour and even went without lunch just to see a woman taking a bath.” – Gabriel Garcia Marquez, ‘100 Years of Solitude’

“I hope she knows you only like the beginnings of things” – Dr. Faye Miller, ‘Mad Men’ S4E13, by Matthew Weiner, Jonathan Igla, Brett Johnson, Erin Levy

“Somewhere I am owed a dearer god. / To pluck out his fire. / I need a psalm” – Hannah Cohen, “Year of the Scapegoat”

“Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday…” Gabriel García Márquez, ‘100 Years of Solitude’

“Of course, forests are not born fossilized. It happened by way of eruption…” – Sabrina Imbler, ‘Dyke (geology)’