At a certain point in your life, probably when too much of it has gone by, you will open your eyes and see yourself for who you are, especially for everything that made you so different from all the awful normals. And you will say to yourself, “But I am this person.” And in that statement, that correction, there will be a kind of love.

Phoebe in Wonderland

Housing

wheninemerson:

getting a suite in Prow:

a single in Colonial:

a triple in LB:

jvke:

Truth

In an interview with the Guardian last year, Sendak said that the term “children’s illustrator” annoyed him, since it seems to belittle his talent. “I have to accept my role. I will never kill myself like Vincent van Gogh. Nor will I paint beautiful water lilies like Monet. I can’t do that. I’m in the idiot role of being a kiddie book person,” he said.
Maurice Sendak, American born author of Where the Wild Things Are, has died at the age of 83.