Karen Swallow Prior Quotes

I believe in a God who not only intervenes in human affairs--again and again--but one who also makes banquets out of stale bread.

Besides, we were fifteen, and we couldn't get our feelings to match up with our brains. So we went with our feelings.

From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw and named in me.

What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.

Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.

I am so afraid that strangers with think me good! and there is a degree of hypocrisy in appearing much better than one is.” - Hannah More