Domestica

“Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose

“Mrs. Hopewell had no bad qualities of her own but she was able to use other people's in such a constructive way that she never felt the lack.”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

“When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Spring is the time of plans and projects.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina