Frank & Red

by Matt Coyne

He had once heard a saying that went something like: ‘You don’t need a parachute to skydive once.’ That’s what he was thinking about: that falling in love with someone, and allowing yourself to do so, was like falling without a parachute. And that’s okay when it’s the love of your life, because you only intend to skydive once.

They talk about a battle against cancer. As though it’s possible to stop the unstoppable, with nothing more than courage or wishful thinking, or being positive or whatever. What a load of shite.’

Life is a big hole, unless you fill it with things, people and experiences and stuff.

when she smiled it was like her eyes didn’t join in.

Books give a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything,’