Quotes About Amma

In Amma's snideness, I caught a whiff of desperation and righteousness. Like she'd whined at breakfast: I wish I'd be murdered. Amma didn't want anyone to get more attention than her. Certainly not girls who couldn't compete when they were alive.

The day of Amma's arrest, the day it finally, completely unraveled, Curry and Eileen parked themselves on my couch, like concerned salt and pepper shakers.

Plus, there was Amma and her mysterious friendliness toward me. I hated to admit it, but I was becoming obsessed with the girl.

if the ordination to the priesthood because of a whole liturgical symbolism (which is also psychological) is reserved to men, Christian antiquity was acquainted with charismatic Ammas, spiritual Mothers, who, equally with the Fathers, Abbas, practised the discernment of spirits and penetrating insight into souls.