Peter di Lorenzi

“Most of us come to the church by a means the church does not allow.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“Let me make no bones about it: I write from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. Nothing is more repulsive to me than the idea of myself setting up a little universe of my own choosing and propounding a little immoralistic message. I write with a solid belief in all the Christian dogmas.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“The modern hero is the outsider. His experience is rootless. He can go anywhere. He belongs nowhere. Being alien to nothing, he ends up being alienated from any type of community based on common tastes and interests. The borders of his country are the sides of his skull.”
― Flannery O'Connor, Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works