Michael Sliney

“You can choose your friends but you sho’ can’t choose your family, an’ they’re still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge ’em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don’t.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn’t calculate his happiness.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“It was clear to me now that, owing to my unbounded vanity and to the high standard I set for myself, I often looked at myself with furious discontent.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.” Mark Twain