Michael Buckner

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

“A dead man's dog ain't got a name.”
― Cormac McCarthy, Outer Dark

“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 said to him that just because you can’t remember, doesn’t mean the past isn’t out there. All those precious moments are still there somewhere.”
― Sarah Winman, Tin Man