“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“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, As Meat Loves Salt“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, As Meat Loves Salt“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, As Meat Loves Salt“I dig and plough at your command,' I replied, 'but you will not tell me how to shit.”
Maria McCann, As Meat Loves Salt