“Amplifying things, good or bad, was what Chicago did best” – Abbot Kahler, ‘Sin In The Second City’

“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’