"Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can say we never truly felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others…But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together. I know that the night is not the same as the day:that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started. But with Catherine there was almost no different in the night except that it was an even better time."

— Ernest Hemingway 

we are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well
that death will tremble to take us. 

- charles bukowski

you did a pretty damn good job. Love you, Michael, we’ll miss you