Robyn Connelly

“We brought it home and decorated it with Marnie’s pearl collection and my earring collection. Divine made huge red roses out of the red satin bedspread. Later George got some little white lights. I don’t know where he came up with those. It was the best-looking Christmas tree anybody had ever seen.”
― Cookie Mueller, Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories

“If the ultimate goal in life is to be happy, then you have to admit that one-celled creatures have it all over us. Little germs are probably always happy. They are superior, they don’t sing the blues.”
― Cookie Mueller, Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories

“Why does everybody think I’m so wild? I’m not wild. I happen to stumble onto wildness. It gets in my path.”
― Cookie Mueller, Walking Through Clear Water In a Pool Painted Black: Collected Stories

“she felt uneasy about the fact that, regardless of education, or work, or children, her happiness and that of the women around her depended on a man not being cruel – or more often, on how a woman managed it when they were.”
― Selali Fiamanya, Before We Hit the Ground