The writing of Kathleen McGookey shines more brightly than most fine things we feel pleasure to read. Celebrate it!

I love the solitude of reading. I love the deep dive into someone else's story, the delicious ache of a last page.

Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, you must know sorrow as the other deepest thing.

Poetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.

There is a place to stand where you can see so many lights you forget you are one of them.

... the real heroes of race and culture would always be the people who stepped out of their own line to make a larger circle.

You know, those of us who leave our homes in the morning and expect to find them there when we go back - it's hard for us to understand what the experience of a refugee might be like.

This is the world I want to live in. The shared world.

Being good felt like a heavy coat, so I took it off.

Before you know what kindness really is you must lose things, feel the future dissolve in a moment like salt in a weakened broth.

Energy is everything. Rubbing happy and sad together creates energy.

Without fear there cannot be courage.

She'd made him watch every Alien movie. Most of the goriest scenes were accompanied by his dialogue: 'Ach, that's no' - that's just no' right.... Bloody hell, this canna be right.

My Solitude is my Treasure, the best thing I have. I hesitate to go out. If you opened the little gate, I would not hop away—but oh how I sing in my gold cage.

Just like you can’t punish anyone without punishing yourself, you can’t love anyone without loving yourself.

I could've been your everythingbut you didn't have the courageto love me in the way I needed

I don't get embarrassed easily, and I do silly things all the time!

There are only two things to remember. Number one...Don't Stop, and number two...Keep Going!

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

Some people with awful cards can be successful because of how they deal with the tragedies they're handed, and that seems courageous to me.

No one's ever gotten better by practicing less.