Pete Orsi

“Josip considers this a very good sign. Winston may be abandoning his habit of confusing data for wisdom.”
― Michael D. O'Brien, Island of the World: A Novel

“The first half of life is discovering the script, and the second half is actually writing it and owning it.”
― Richard Rohr, AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life

“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

“These honors that you give to me are not for me alone. They are for those who, dying young, now sleep in the earth with their unspoken poems, waiting for the Last Day.”
― Michael D. O'Brien, Island of the World: A Novel