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Book cover for Island of the World: A Novel
One does not need to recreate the cosmos or to fix it, but I can choose to love, despite everything. This is currency. Only God frees me to choose this because, without him, I would slide into the condition of the killers, the beast-men of ...more
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“mother’s best friends. And she never failed to deliver a brief glimpse of eternity in every meeting, every conversation.”
Brian J. Gail, Fatherless

Michael D. O'Brien
“to hide them. “A man is himself and no other”, Josip says. “He is an island in the sea of being. And each island is as no other. The islands are connected because they have come forth from the sea, and the sea flows between them. It separates them yet unites them, if they learn to swim.”
Michael D. O'Brien, Island of the World: A Novel

Michael D. O'Brien
“Individual destiny is not produced machine-like from the “mills of the gods”. Nor are we characters in a morality play. We are works of art, each work distinct, each a phenomenon, the art laboring hand in hand with the Artist to create the story. We are inside a poem. No, we are the poem.”
Michael D. O'Brien, Island of the World: A Novel

“Every family member reacts to the suicide of a loved one in his or her own individual manner: from anger to admiration, from identification to denial. Dr. Edward Dunne likens the suicide of his brother, Tim, to a meteorite that crashed into his family, sending each member into different and separate orbits of mourning. “Suicide destroys the original fabric of the family, forcing a reintegration of the survivors,” he says. “The pace at which individual family members are ready and able to do this will vary, necessitating individual interventions.”
Carla Fine, No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One

Ronald Rolheiser
“There comes a point in our lives when meaning must be predicated on something beyond the feeling we get from success and achievement.”
Ronald Rolheiser, Sacred Fire: A Vision for a Deeper Human and Christian Maturity

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