*milkyway*

"I had never thought about it, but summer was Dill by the fish-pool smoking strings, Dill's eyes alive with complicated plans to make Boo Radley emerge; summer was the swiftness with which Dill would reach up and kiss me when Jem was not looking, the longings we sometimes felt each other feel.
With him, life was routine, without him, life was unbearable. I stayed miserable for two days."

aus: 'to kill a mockingbird' von harper lee, s. 128

alles, was das buch so fantastisch macht (die sprache, der stil, die beobachtungsgabe, der feine humor, die wärme...) in zwei sätzen.