Sandra

“I couldn't make any judgment on the Summa, except to say this: I read it for about twenty minutes every night before I go to bed. If my mother were to come in during this process and say, 'Turn off that light. It's late,' I with a lifted finger and broad bland beatific expression, would reply, 'On the contrary, I answer that the light, being eternal and limitless, cannot be turned off. Shut your eyes,' or some such thing.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“There won't be any biographies of me, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the chicken farm do not make for exciting copy.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“I am largely worried about wingless chickens. I feel this is the time for me to fulfill myself by stepping in and saving the chicken but I don't know how exactly since I am not bold. I only know I believe in the complete chicken. You think about the complete chicken for a while.”
― Flannery O'Connor, The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor

“Your love should never be offered to the mouth of a Stranger / Only to someone who has the valor and daring to cut pieces of their soul off with a knife / Then weave them into a blanket to protect you.”
― Hafiz