To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it.
Kathleen NorrisWe can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present.
Kathleen NorrisIt's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough?
Kathleen NorrisWe shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view is far more holistic, regarding faith as a whole-body experience. Sometimes it is, as W.H. Auden described it, 'a matter of choosing what is difficult all one's days as if it were easy.
Kathleen Norris