Kaitlyn Hurley

“He's become the one the songs are about, and while part of me knows he's probably worth that, another part is yelling at me to slow the fuck down.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it, if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass, the same hips and haws on the autumn hedgerows, the same redbreasts that we used to call ‘God’s birds’ because they did no harm to the precious crops. What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known and loved because it is known?”
― George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.”
― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

“Gentrification is key to understanding what happened to our cities at the turn of the millennium. But it is only half of the story. It is only the visible side of the larger problem: resegregation.”
― Jeff Chang, We Gon' Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation