Mike Cooney

“There is old proverb from my childhood. "Say not in grief 'He is no more,' but live in the thankfulness that he was.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

“That’s how it works, doesn’t it? We are saved by saving others.”
― Jonathan Auxier, Sweep: The Story of a Girl and Her Monster

“I am thinking of beauty again, how some things are hunted because we have deemed them beautiful. If, relative to the history of our planet, an individual life is so short, a blink, as they say, then to be gorgeous, even from the day you're born to the day you die, is to be gorgeous only briefly.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Got me thinking. I know what I love too. Family and friends. All the ones here and all ones gone. I love my dog, and this orchard, and a crumbledown house.

Funny thing. The way that feels. It's not dark, unlucky, or stupid. Tell you what. Stupid can go sit on the head of a pink somewhere.

Knowing what you love is smart." -Mason”
― Leslie Connor, The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle