1
I dig and plough at your command, ' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.Maria McCann
2
Behold, ' said the Voice, 'earthly beauty. It is nothing but seeming, for to the uninstructed eye the world appears fruitful and sweet, yet in it is nothing but a pile of skulls, showing where others were lost as they went before.Maria McCann
3
I mean that repeated offences, even when they secure forgiveness, drive out love. And from that I came to say that one may compel obedience but never love.Maria McCann
4
Whatever makes a man a beast also renders him pitiable. But it behoves us to be wary of these bestial men despite our compassion, for they frequently turn on their friends.Maria McCann
5
How did men make themselves loved, I wondered. I had passed all my life with men who were loved but I seemed never to have learnt the lesson.Maria McCann
6
Violent love eats up what it does love, and it is mere appetite. I scribbled on the bottom of this before sending it back: I would sooner cut my own flesh than do you a hurt. You should not have tried to get between us! But only come to see me, and another time I will stand and let me beat to a mummy.Maria McCann
7
God cuts out our path, makes a groove in the clay with His finger, and we poor blind ants slide down into it.Maria McCann