“Its face was like the face she had seen in some medieval paintings where the martyr’s limbs are being sawed off and his expression says he is being deprived of nothing essential.”
— Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
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“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
-Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Lately her mournful spirituality had provoked in me the most primitive impulses … My heart’s desire was that she sit on my lap in the yellow muscadine sunlight.”
— Walker Percy, from Love in the Ruins (Ivy Books, 1971)
“He felt himself caught up in her look, held there before the judgment seat of her eyes.”
— Flannery O’Connor, The Violent Bear It Away
