Quotes from Flannery O'Connor

The daughter sat down too and watched him with a cautious sly look as if he were a bird that had come up very close.

You have to stop confusing a madness with a mission

The horrible thought she had had before the accident was that the house she had remembered so vividly was not in Georgia but in Tennessee. Bailey

You found out more when you left where you lived. He had found out already this morning that he had been made by a carpenter named Jesus Christ. Before he had thought it had been a doctor named Sladewall ....

his mind had frozen around his grandfather's treachery as if he were trying to preserve it intact to present at the final judgment.

The graduates in their heavy robes looked as if the last beads of ignorance were being sweated out of them.

GO WARN THE CHILDREN OF GOD OF THE TERRIBLE SPEED OF MERCY.

Wesley, the younger child, had had rheumatic fever when he was seven and Mrs. May thought that this was what had caused him to be an intellectual.

Sé fiel a ti mismo, pero avanza hacia arriba, hacia una mayor conciencia y un amor más profundo. En la cima encontrarás junto a ti a otros que han ascendido de un modo similar, pues todo lo que sube, converge»

Do you think, Mr. Motes," she said hoarsely, "that when you're dead, you're blind?" "I hope so," he said after a minute. "Why?" she asked, staring at him. After a while he said, "If there's no bottom in your eyes, they hold more.

He felt he knew now what time would be like without seasons and what heat would be like without light and what man would be like without salvation. He didn't care if he never made the train and if it had not been for what suddenly caught his attention, like a cry out of the gathering dusk, he might have forgotten there was a station to go to.

Do you have any books the faculty doesn't particularly recommend?

She lifted the hat one more time and set it down slowly on top of her head. Two wings of gray hair protruded on either side of her florid face, but her eyes, sky-blue, were as innocent and untouched by experience as they must have been when she was ten. Were it not that she was a widow who had struggled fiercely to feed and clothe and put him through school and who was supporting him still, "until he got on his feet," she might have been a little girl that he had to take to town.

FLANNERY O'CONNOR Wise Blood

He seemed to be a young man but he had a look of composed dissatisfaction as if he understood life thoroughly.

I am not a warthog from hell.

Eastrod filled his head and then went out beyond and filled the space that stretched from the train across the empty darkening fields.

Everything That Rises Must Converge

She had given a little cry; she looked aghast. He was pleased that she should see death in his face at once. His mother, at the age of sixty, was going to be introduced to reality and he supposed that if the experience didn't kill her, it would assist her in the process of growing up. He stepped down and greeted her.

The grandmother wrote this down because she thought it would be interesting to say how many miles they had been when they got back. It took them twenty minutes to reach the outskirts of the city.

Mr. Shiftlet said that the trouble with the world was that nobody cared, or stopped and took any trouble.

He said that a man had to escape to the country to see the world whole and that he wished he lived in a desolate place like this where he could see the sun go down every evening like God made it to do.

trips made him nervous.

No one can be an atheist who does not know all things. Only God is an atheist.