Flannery O'Connor Quote

I’ve seen a lot of stuff… maybe I’ve seen too much. I see most humans in a bad light because I’ve seen what they can do, how evil they can be… I’ve seen the Holocaust and I’ve seen Jonestown, I’ve see...

Oh, trust me Sydney Tar Ponds, you aren’t the first Personification to be forgotten by somebody ordinary, Mearth sighed with a falsely-reassuring smile. Alecto stepped back from her, glaring hatefully...

(...) pick up your axe, start at the rootsdon't miss the trunk, never forget:to end life truly and finallystart at the roots or end there.

Lady Moon rose an' gazed o'er my busted'n'beautsome Valleys with silv'ry'n'sorryin' eyes, an' the dingos mourned for the died uns.

A snake must be treated as a snake, forgiving it every time it showed you its fangs, will not transform into a garland of flowers.

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing...

There was nothing Mandy had wanted more than to give her full attention to the world of Personifications and ignore those who ignored her in society. She’d wanted to talk out loud to Alecto, to have c...

I hear the Wind Woman running with soft, soft footsteps over the hill. I shall always think of the wind as a personality. She is a shrew when she blows from the north -- a lonely seeker when she blows...

A fox should not be of the jury at a goose's trial.