He felt the loyalty we feel to unhappiness - the sense that is where we really belong.

It is a great danger for everyone when what is shocking changes.

I know one thing you don't. I know the difference between Right and Wrong. They didn't teach you that at school.' Rose didn't answer; the woman was quite right: the two words meant nothing to her. Their taste was extinguished by stronger foods--Good and Evil.

Death will come in any case, and there is a long afterwards if the priests are right and nothing to fear if they are wrong.

If two people loved, they slept together; it was a mathematical formula, tested and proved by human experience.

I write about situations that are common, universal might be more correct, in which my characters are involved and from which only faith can redeem them, though often the actual manner of the redemption is not immediately clear. They sin, but there is no limit to God's mercy and because this is important, there is a difference between not confessing in fact, and the complacent and the pious may not realize it.

The world was in her heart already, like the small spot of decay in a fruit.