Donna Highley

“nobody ever finds
the one”
― Charles Bukowski

“They looked as if nothing had ever touched them--all well-mothered, protected, with a soft sheen of contentment. None of them had ever been in jail, or worked hard with their hands, or even gotten a traffic ticket. Skimmed-milk jollies, the whole bunch.”
― Charles Bukowski, Women

“Those faces you see every day on the streets were not created entirely without hope: be kind to them: like you they have not escaped.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.”
― Charles Bukowski