Roland Merullo

The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational…

— Roland Merullo

The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years.

— Roland Merullo

“All-American and proud of it. Too rich and soft and flawed to make any spiritual mark on anyone other than my own…

— Roland Merullo

“I thought I heard a cow mooing in Seese's back yard. Later on, later down the road, as they say, I would…

— Roland Merullo

“There are some kinds of sorrow that words can never reach, certain kinds of things you can never hold in the box…

— Roland Merullo

“You keep telling yourself it will be different. Year after year, time after time, you keep telling yourself things might change. It's…

— Roland Merullo

“...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and…

— Roland Merullo

“some point you had to risk the ridicule of the mob, of your own internalized voices, and try to see clearly what…

— Roland Merullo

“Isn't mockery the province of the insecure?”

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“Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on…

— Roland Merullo

“You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least,…

— Roland Merullo

“I’m not great at talking to people. I have all these thoughts bunching up inside my head and then they come out…

— Roland Merullo

I felt I was drawing close to that age, that place in life, where you realize one day what you'd told yourself…

— Roland Merullo

“Some people use their own hurt as an excuse for hurting others, or for soaking in self-pity, or for a sharp anger…

— Roland Merullo

“There was a small glass vase between us, three gladioli in a few ounces of water. One of the gladioli had dropped…

— Roland Merullo

“All difficulties in this life, every moment of difficulty, come from the distance between what is and what we want to be.”

— Roland Merullo

“I have a tremendous fascination with the United States of America, the grand, swirling variousness of it, the way it siphons off…

— Roland Merullo

“The frown again. So much contained there in the flex of a few muscles. All of history, it sometimes seemed to me.…

— Roland Merullo

“With two teenagers in the house, we sometimes experience a degree of domestic turbulence that sounds, to my ear, like a boiling…

— Roland Merullo

“that girl was not treated well, and when anyone is hurt like that - especially a child - the hurt burrows down…

— Roland Merullo

“When we were first together, when you first brought me here to this beautiful place, you used to say you were glad…

— Roland Merullo

“I decided that if I was worth anything as a person, I ought to be able to let her be with what…

— Roland Merullo

If Christ's message could be distilled down to one line, that line would have to do with kindness and inclusiveness, not rules…

— Roland Merullo

“I studied him the way I studied all the people in my life, noticing the changes of his mood, the times when…

— Roland Merullo

“You have to take a little time to appreciate being alive and breathing instead of wondering what you have to do next…

— Roland Merullo