“By then, the city was a throbbing, thriving place, growing so fast it erased and rewrote itself by the minute.” p. 300 The Library Book, Susan Orlean

“She never forgave him. She looked out the window her whole life, the way so many woman sit their sadness on an elbow.” Talking about her great grandmother. Audiobook 18:30

“Like a man who has lost his life but can‘t stop breathing.” John Green Looking for Alaska 10th anniversary ed. original funeral scene describing Alaska‘s dad. P. 302