Mickey Cashdollar

“Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.”
― Oliver Sacks

“She was knowingly punishing herself. That was the only reasonable explanation. There was no use in acting naive. What happened earlier in the day was proof that she was going to give in to his flirtation. It appeared she'd thrown caution to the wind and opened her arms to embrace everything that could go wrong in her life. What's one more problem to add to the pile?”
― Emem Uko, The Place That Gave

“I am not at all the kind who can forget the tarnish on the reverse side of the brightest coin.”
― V.C. Andrews, Petals on the Wind

“Patience! patience! ye whose hearts swell indignant at wrongs like these. Not one throb of anguish, not one tear of the oppressed, is forgotten by the Man of Sorrows, the Lord of Glory. In his patient, generous bosom he bears the anguish of a world. Bear thou, like him, in patience, and labor in love; for sure as he is God, “the year of his redeemed shall come.”
― Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom's Cabin