“There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book.”

— Carson McCullers

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Carson McCullers 45

American writer 1917–1967

Mattin (1977) Spanish musician

Pages 20–21.
"Going Fragile" (July 2005)

“opening the book, i inhaled. the smell of old books, so sharp, so dry you can taste it.”

Diane Setterfield book The Thirteenth Tale

Source: The Thirteenth Tale

“There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.”

Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960) American folklorist, novelist, short story writer

“I'll make you mine, lovers said in old books. They never said, I'll make you me.”

Margaret Atwood book Oryx and Crake

Source: Oryx and Crake

“With lightning, you went from me, and I could find
Nothing to make a song about”

W.B. Yeats (1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright

Reconciliation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1568/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
Context: Some may have blamed you that you took away
The verses that could move them on the day
When, the ears being deafened, the sight of the eyes blind
With lightning, you went from me, and I could find
Nothing to make a song about but kings,
Helmets, and swords, and half-forgotten things
That were like memories of you--but now
We'll out, for the world lives as long ago;
And while we're in our laughing, weeping fit,
Hurl helmets, crowns, and swords into the pit.
But, dear, cling close to me; since you were gone,
My barren thoughts have chilled me to the bone.