Mac Tighe

“Even if color is nothing but what the light reveals, that nothing has laws, and a boy on a pink bike must learn above all else, the laws of gravity.”
― Ocean Vuong, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

“Why me?

He says: Because you are not like all the others, because I don't see anyone but you and you don't even realize it.

He adds this phrase, which for me is unforgettable: Because you will leave and we will stay.”
― Philippe Besson, Lie With Me

“As they carried along and met more people Furlong did and did not know, he found himself asking was there any point in being alive without helping one another? Was it possible to carry on along through all the years, the decades, through an entire life, without once being brave enough to go against what was there and yet call yourself a Christian, and face yourself in the mirror?”
― Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These

“I like Villiam. He was not brought up nice but he tries to be a nice person, vithout even cocoa and a sing song to help him. It is hard to go against your nature.”
― Terry Pratchett, The Truth