Mountains Quote by Michael D. O'Brien

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“[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

“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

“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

“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

“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

“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