Quotes About Convent

Growing up in an old-fashioned Bengali Hindu family and going to a convent school run by stern Irish nuns, I was brought up to revere rules. Without rules, there was only anarchy.

the house had been set up by two countesses 'by divine inspiration, as it is piously believed', to preserve the respectability of women who couldn't marry, couldn't afford the 'dowry' needed to enter a convent and who were about 'to go begging or shamefully support themselves'. The beguinage allowed them to 'support and clothe themselves by suitable work, without shaming themselves or their friends'.

There's a girl on the beach at high tide, lighting up the sea with her hands. The girls from the convent watch her from the clifftop. She's waded into the ocean up to her waist, higher. She's not even wearing a bathing suit - just jeans and a black cardigan. And she's setting the sea on fire.

Nuns freak me out.