“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive.”
— James Baldwin (via everybodycares)
Sure, this reads true for the tumblr set… but the unfortunate corollary is that the average young American learns this lesson not with books, but with reality television. Heidi Montag is the new Jane Austin.
