Such Is My Beloved Quotes

“His sins seemed to be so few that he was alarmed and groped anxiously for more, knowing he could not be without guilt.”
― Morley Callaghan, Such Is My Beloved

“The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of small sins so that she could imagine herself full of remorse.”
― Morley Callaghan, Such Is My Beloved

“Didn't you regret the life you were leading?

They didn't answer him. The sullen dogged expression was on Ronnie's face and Midge kept shifting her glance away, trying to avoid the priest's angry eyes. But they did not look like persons aware of guilt. They were merely un- easy and resentful, as if they did not want to listen. Some- times Midge looked directly at him with a bold impatience and he saw she was pretty, and remembered how she had taken the middle-aged sober man into the hotel half an hour ago.”
― Morley Callaghan, Such Is My Beloved

“As he still groped for that one moment, Father Dowling began to think that the whole city for years had been whispering its story to him out of the darkness in snatches, in a huge confessional where he could not see the faces…”
― Morley Callaghan, Such Is My Beloved