All the Lonely People

by Mike Gayle

‘I don’t make the rules.’ ‘No, you don’t,’ Hubert retorted, ‘but you go along with them just fine, which in my eyes makes you just as bad.’

‘It’s easy to waste a lot of time trying to think of a perfect solution to a problem. But sometimes the only thing you can do is cross your fingers and have a go.’

You’ve got to refuse to give up on people, even if them given up on themselves.’

he felt, for the first time in a very long while, like there might just be some light at the end of the tunnel. He’d been living in the shadows for so long, and holding on so tightly to the past, that he’d let the present pass him by. But that was then, and this was now, and he was finally ready to embrace the future and make the most of every minute he had left.