Kathleen Rooney

“Like many parents in middle age, he's quick to spot changes in the world, slow to note shifts in his own perspective.”

“All right, all right," he said, with that gesture I'd come to hate: two open palms facing me and patting the air, as if pushing me away, pushing me down, pushing any tears I might be preparing to cry back into their ducts.”

“I thought at times that poetry might be an elegant way of screaming.”

“If you love something, know that it will leave on a day you are far from ready.”

“I wasn't glad that I hadn't died. And I wasn't sad that I hadn't. I wasn't anything.”

“The point of living in the world is just to stay interested.”