Heroes Have the Right to Bleed Quotes

“My mother, after stopping her physical abuse, began conveying my private life through a filtered lens to my relatives via phone. She was the 'dutiful mother' and painted our family portrait as a hardship because of me.”
― L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, Heroes Have the Right to Bleed

“This is the problem with our story, we have to prove ourselves according to a strict requirement it seems to the outside world, whether it is the extended family or strangers, or even yourselves.”
― L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, Heroes Have the Right to Bleed

“My children are the survivors, and heroes that for so long have lived in an encapsulated environment that has rendered them caged Supermen that were not allowed to bleed, be human, nor show their talents to their fullest extent, be Supermen in public.”
― L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, Heroes Have the Right to Bleed

“Little did I know that Tammy was having “visions” in her private prayer at work and at home. Until one day, after she had left her job, she came home and said we needed to pick something up. Apparently, she had partially paid for an RV to travel and felt that her getting let go from her job was a “sign from God”. She told me that I was to be a deacon and we were to leave Bakersfield and like Abraham, were to follow God and move away from idolatry and like the Israelites from Egypt move away from our slavery to self.”
― L.B. Ó Ceallaigh, Heroes Have the Right to Bleed