The Pelican Child Quotes

“ ‘All the world is but a glass in which we see God,’ ” I said. “ ‘There is not so poor a creature but may be thy glass to see God in.’ ”
― Joy Williams, The Pelican Child: Stories

“Nothing alarms the monied class more than a powerful sense of guilt,” Camilla said.”
― Joy Williams, The Pelican Child: Stories

“When people take words from the Bible and repeat them to young children”
― Joy Williams, The Pelican Child: Stories

“This is so lovely," his father said. "It's somewhat incoherent, but that's what keeps it from being too much to bear.”
― Joy Williams, The Pelican Child: Stories