Michael Sliney

“Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds; they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

“His mind tired–tired with nothing, tired with everything, with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.” F. Scott Fitzgerald

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”

—Kate Chopin, “The Awakening”

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“You may be the only Jesus that your neighbor will ever see.” Mother Angelica