Margaret George

“So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.”

“Hope is a straw hat hanging beside a window covered with frost.”

“The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.”

“I did not worry about what a man or woman personally believed, but the nation's official religion should be outwardly practiced by all its citizens. A religion was a political statement. Bei...”

“Perhaps life is like an hour glass, with dear ones the sand that slips from the upper glass--the earth--into the second--eternity.”