“You know, Daddy said, it's some that can live their whole life out without asking about it and it's others has to know why it is, and this boy is one of the latters. He's going to be into everything!”
— Flannery O'Connor“He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.”
— Flannery O'Connor“You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you odd.”
— Flannery O'Connor“It does not take much to make us realize what fools we are, but the little it takes is long in coming.”
— Flannery O'Connor“When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.”
— Flannery O'Connor