Susan Elia MacNeal

“No great country was ever saved by good men, because good men will not go the lengths that may be necessary. —HORACE…

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“A gang of rogues can’t rule forever.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“Christopher Boothby had”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“His one indulgence was attending the occasional Chelsea Blues game”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“Gottlieb pulled away from her. “God may have drawn back from the world, to give us free will. The problem of evil…

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“The point of jewelry isn’t to make a woman look rich but to enhance her own beauty.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“I hate this! I hate all of it. I hate the way the world is. I hate knowing these things. I hate…

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“She wasn't happy, exactly; she was still too raw for that. But she was satisfied. Satisfied and relieved, too, with maybe just…

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“A cynic is what an idealist calls a realist.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“For the truth is so precious she must be accompanied by a bodyguard of lies.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“Why is it that when you pick a number, any number, then double it, add 6, halve it, and take away the…

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“I do solemnly swear I will trust my instincts—my ‘gut’—from now on,”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“No country was ever saved by good men, because good men will not go to the length that may be necessary.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“The winds were changing. They”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“Its motto, from Figaro’s monologue in the final act of Le Mariage de Figaro, was Sans la liberté de blâmer, il n’est…

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“Goethe’s Faust, Ignatius of Loyola’s Spiritual Exercises, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s The Cost of Discipleship”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“Hitler is a great admirer of Andrew Jackson?”

— Susan Elia MacNeal

“It was as if the house, like time, like Paris—like France itself—was sleeping under some malevolent spell.”

— Susan Elia MacNeal