Rowan Colleary

“And yet we continue not to do anything to stop it, because the things that are causing it, the things we’re doing that are making it worse – building buildings, taking planes, driving cars, eating meat, buying stuff, having children! – these are the very things that make us us. So we seem to be faced with an impossible dilemma: if we don’t want to be killed by climate change, we have to stop being ourselves. You can see why people aren’t exactly rushing to man the barricades. The thought of addressing it actually seems in some ways worse to us than being killed by it. Or put it another way, the thought of no longer being ourselves is harder for us to get our head around than the thought of being dead.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“The night is huge and it hurts.”
― Max Porter, Shy

“That's the past, isn't it. You think it's behind you, then one day you walk into a room and it's there waiting for you.”
― Paul Murray, The Bee Sting

“I buried myself in the woods today. Covered myself in flowers and pretended to be dead." She raised her pen for a moment and thought, then went back to writing in cursive that could rival Sister's.
"You should always wait for late spring to die, Juno," she says then. "The flowers are better".”
― Karl Geary, Juno Loves Legs