Mike

“She could never be a saint, but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick.”
― Flannery O'Connor

“He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone”
― Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

“If we want to be Christians, we must have some share in Christ’s large-heartedness by acting with responsibility and in freedom when the hour of danger comes, and by showing a real sympathy that springs, not from fear , but from the liberating and redeeming love of Christ for all who suffer. Mere waiting and looking on is not Christian behavior. The Christian is called to sympathy and action, not in the first place by his own sufferings, but by the sufferings of his brethren, for whose sake Christ suffered.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“I come from a family where the only emotion respectable to show is irritation. In some this tendency produces hives, in others literature, in me both.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor