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“O’Connor can teach us any number of things. Perhaps the most beautiful… and that deserves to be shouted from the rooftops … is that we should all pay attention to the mingled beauty and ridiculousness of the people around us. That we should seek to understand them through humor, which as in the stories of O’Connor is at its best and most effective when it is equal parts deadly weapon and act of grace”

The children of wicked nations will be butchered… legs where arms should be, foot to face, ear in the palm of hand. Who will remain whole. Who?

This foolish acting did not deceive Mrs. shortley any. Here he was: leading foreigners over inwards to places that were not theirs, to cause disputes, to uproot n, to plant the Whore of Babylon in the midst of the righteous!

God save me! she cried silently, from the stinking power of Satan!

If everybody was as dead as I am, nobody would have no trouble

Good country people

195- I may sell Bibles, but I know which end is up and I wasn’t born yesterday and I know where I’m going!”

192- without the leg, she felt entirely dependent on him. Her brain seemed to have stopped thinking altogether, and to be about some other function that it was not very good at.

192-when after a minute, she said in a hoarse high, Voice “ all right” it was like surrendering to him completely. It was like losing her own life and finding it again, miraculously, in his.

191-We are all damned. She said. But some of us have taken off our blindfolds and see that there’s nothing to see. It’s a kind of salvation.
192-she felt as if her heart had stopped and left her mind to pump her blood. She decided that for the first time in her life, she was face to face with real innocence. This boy, with an instinct that came from beyond wisdom, had touched the truth about her.