Quotes by Kathryn Hulme

It is not easy to be a nun. It is a life of sacrifice and self-abnegation. It is a life against nature. Poverty, chastity and obedience are extremely difficult. But there are always the graces if you will pray for them. Pray that you may all become St Johns, lovers of Christ.

Lourdes was a bonfire thousands of candles and burning cries and a week of rising suns over an esplanade where stretcher cases lay side by side, end to end, waiting for a priest to come with a monstrance that gathered sun to its gold and blazed in the sign of the cross above the stretchers.

Never forget that God tests his real friends more severely than the lukewarm ones.

She could still taste the plump fine oysters from Zeeland that he had ordered for her last meal in the world, the dry sparkle of the vintage Budesheimer which had cost him the fees of at least five visits to patients and the ice cream richly sauced with crushed glazed chestnuts which she loved.

The awesome antiphon swelled in the dark and expanded.

The dark-veiled silhouette that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demented dreamland of fearful potential.