Ellen O'brien

“Those eagles, like angels, don't distinguish between work and play. To them, it is all one and the same.”
― Rebecca Wells, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

“. . . Aunt Loretta doesn't look like herself, but she doesn't look broken.”
― Heidi W. Durrow, The Girl Who Fell from the Sky

“If we don't counterbalance our blows with blessings, we will become closed and cynical about life. Then we are really kidnapped and enslaved, inside, where no one can get us.”
― Fr. Richard Flechette

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints . . .”
― Flannery O'Connor