Caitlin

“Death has this much to be said for it: You don’t have to get out of bed for it. Wherever you happen to be They bring it to you—free.—Kingsley Amis”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality

“His own life made very little noise of its own, and he found that in silence there was something downright perilous: It had enemies in it that only sound could drive out.”
― James Leo Herlihy, Midnight Cowboy

“The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and singing 'Yellow Submarine' at the top of my voice in the back row of the coach on school trips. They belong to me, not to me and Laura, or me and Charlie, or me and Alison Ashworth, and though they'll make me feel something, they won't make me feel anything bad.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

“What do I hope for? If not a cure, then a remission. And what do I want back? In the most beautiful apposition of two of the simplest words in our language: the freedom of speech.”
― Christopher Hitchens, Mortality