“We are resisting the technological corruption of our humanity with technology. We’re also resisting with our thinking, our perseverance, our friendships....In the end, we will find that even the best of tools can do no more than assist us. Certainly… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Man projects his wounds upon the world, my friend. He judges everything, and in the judging he reveals himself.” — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Words are gold, split and shared as coinage, small pebbles, emblems offered back and forth-given, received; given, received-expanding the vocabulary of the soul” — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“You can't just sit there hating the wound, Tan, or indulging in bitterness. Whatever you become in life, always ask yourself, am I making… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The human mind is stimulated by change, motivated by meeting the challenge of novelty or threat or pleasure, rewarded with the sensations of being… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“We are resisting the technological corruption of our humanity with technology. We’re also resisting with our thinking, our perseverance, our friendships....In the end, we… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“We must all make the mental leap from the pious histories we have read in the martyrologies to the reality of living flesh and… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Was there a missing component in all human beings? The rural masses seeking the metropolis; the urban young fleeing to the woods. Women pretending… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“For those who suffer disposal, the cost is their very lives. For those of us who survive, there is a creeping indifference to anything… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“We came to know that love is the soul of the world, though its body bleeds, and we must learn to bleed with it.” — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Each tool reshapes the one who is apparently the master of the tool. I ask myself this: At what point does the tool, the… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Tell me, Anna, if man is capable of projecting his belief onto the cosmos, isn't it possible by the same token, that he can… — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“They’re convinced that the more conservative you are the more orthodox you are. They’re more Catholic than the Pope.” — Michael D. O'Brien Copy Share Image
![“[About the main character approaching death in old age, observed by her husband . . .] He saw that she had already laid down a large portion of her life long ago. Piece by piece she had given it away as she wrestled with existence, as her self was absorbed as nourishment into his life and the life…” quote by Michael D. O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f03/michael-d-o-brien-17161_death_about-the-main-character-approaching-dea_284602.jpg)
