A Little Lower than the Angels Quotes

“I hate this country,” she thought,” I hate it. I always hated it, really. It’s too flat and terrible, there’s no end or beginning to it, and the people are too flat and patient, taking things the way they do and believing them. To inherit the highest degree of glory – to sit beside Brother Joseph again, in another world, and to be commanded by that voice again.” She knew suddenly that Simon belonged to them and not to her – he was flat and yielding and patient, too, Simon was. He wasn’t living now, he was living forever.”
― Virginia Sorensen, A Little Lower than the Angels