Love After Love

In bed that night I invented a special drain that would be underneath every pillow in New York, and would connect to the reservoir. Whenever people cried themselves to sleep, the tears would all go to the same place, and in the morning the weatherman could report if the water level of the Reservoir of Tears had gone up or down, and you could know if New York was in heavy boots.

— Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer

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Look at that sunset. It’s like the daytime didn’t want to end…It’s like the daytime was going to put up a big scrap, set the world on fire to keep the night from creeping on.

— Picnic, 1955

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, ‘This is what it is to be happy.’

— The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (via effyeahliteraryquotes)