Kami

“Behind the newspaper Julian was withdrawing into the inner compartment of his mind where he spent most of his time. This was a kind of mental bubble in which he established himself when he could not bear to be a part of what was going on around him. From it he could see out and judge but in it he was safe from any kind of penetration from without. It was the only place where he felt free of the general idiocy of his fellows. His mother had never entered it but from it he could see her with absolute clarity.
Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories”
― Flannery O'Connor, Everything That Rises Must Converge

“Jane never forgot her first Easter day at Moor End. Many times later in her life she came back to the place she had learned to love but the memory of this one day never faded. Everything about the day was right. The weather was perfect. Sun, cloud, wind, and blue skies. An April day. Everything was fresh and clean. Everything was growing again and even Jane could sense something of the message of Easter.”
― Malcolm Saville, Jane's Country Year

“I call myself The Misfit," he said, "because I can't make what all I done wrong fit what all I gone through in punishment.
Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find”
― Flannery O'Connor, A Good Man Is Hard To Find

“If you come and see me again in years to come—as I hope you all will—I shall try to remember those older faces of yours, but it’s just possible I shan’t be able to—and then some day you’ll see me somewhere and I shan’t recognize you and you’ll say to yourself, ‘The old boy doesn’t remember me.’ [Laughter] But I do remember you—as you are now. That’s the point. In my mind you never grow up at all.”
― James Hilton, Good-Bye, Mr. Chips