Michael Buckner

“The truth is, she's a weirdo. Just like you were. Are. A glorious, perfectly weird weirdo. Like all kids before they forget how to be exactly how weird they really are. Into whatever they're into, pure. Before knowing. Before they learn from others how to act. Before they learn they are Asian, or Black, or Brown, or White. Before they learn that all the things they are and about all the things they will never be.”
― Charles Yu, Interior Chinatown

“It's a big enough job just burying the dead, without trying to draw a moral from each death”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night

“My friends were sad, people who knew my sister were sad, but everyone moves on after a month. It’s all they can manage. It doesn’t mean they weren’t sad, just that things keep going or something, I don’t know.”
― Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea

“I am air and thought and can do nothing.”
― Madeline Miller, The Song of Achilles