Finlay Lunn

“She was blooming and thriving with your love, and I'd like to believe with mine, too, but underneath, something was strangling her - the past, the memories, the roots.”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“The glint does not come from a living being, but from an antique pocket watch - eighteen-carat gold encased with mother of pearl, engraved with the lines from a poem:

"Arriving there is what you are destined for,
But do not hurry the journey at all..."

And there on the back are two letters, or more precisely, the same letter written twice:

Y & Y”
― Elif Shafak, The Island of Missing Trees

“Patroclus, in Achilles' arms, enlighten'd all with stars,”
― Homer

“My son Matthew did not look like a winner. He was rather uncoordinated and wore braces from the age of thirteen until the day he died. However, in his all too brief life he proved that he was a winner. On October sixth, 1998 my son tried to show the world that he could win again. On October twelfth, 1998 my first born son and my hero, lost. On October twelfth, 1998 my first born son and my hero, died, fifty days before his twenty-second birthday.

Matt officially died in a hospital in Ft. Collins, Colorado. He actually died on the outskirts of Laramie, tied to a fence.”
― Moisés Kaufman, The Laramie Project