Vera

“Can’t good come around sometimes through some strange back doors?”
― Donna Tartt, The Goldfinch

“a lost battalion of platonic conversationalists jumping down the stoops off fire escapes off windowsills off Empire State out of the moon”
― Allen Ginsberg, Howl and Other Poems

“I have just discovered that I have no feelings, just thoughts, borrowed thoughts taken from someone I admire because he seems to have feelings.”
― Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

“You will die, and when you die, you will know a profound lack of it [dignity]. It's never dignified, always brutal. What's dignified about dying? It's never dignified. And in obscurity? Offensive. Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves. And it's fleeting and incredibly mercurial. And subjective. So fuck it.”
― Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius