Katherine Anne Porter - Ship of Fools (1962)

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They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

Katherine Anne Porter

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own — even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

Katherine Anne Porter

What if her father and mother could not recognize her now if they saw her? In her flesh they slept serenely, loved and loving, not as remembered faces, nor in any arrested act or posture, but as her blood running softly in her veins, as the beat of her heart and the drawing of her breath.

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The quarrel between them was a terrible treadmill they mounted together and tramped round and round until they were wearied out or in despair.

Katherine Anne Porter

I finished the thing; but I think I sprained my soul.

Katherine Anne Porter

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them.

Katherine Anne Porter

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

Katherine Anne Porter