“Discovering truth is a process that occurs over time, more fully with each idea or book that gets added to the equation. Sure, many of the books I read in my youth filled my head with silly notions and downright… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“Brontë was attempting to depict a character that adheres to the unchanging principles of her faith though she refused conformity to the particular practices… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“If the right book can save your soul, then perhaps the wrong ones can damn it.” — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“It is no coincidence that the term “voice” has come to mean in modern usage much more than just the sound made by the… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“When my youth group leader told all of the kids in youth group that he had burned all of his rock albums, and I… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“Even in their reading, More charged, too many women were prone to superficiality. In search of a passing knowledge of books and authors, many… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“Nothing defined the latter half of England's Victorian age more than the way in which Darwin's claims shook the collective faith of Victorian society.… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“Thomas Merton says, “Discovering vocation does not mean scrambling toward some prize just beyond my reach but accepting the treasure of true self I… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“Discovering truth is a process that occurs over time, more fully with each idea or book that gets added to the equation. Sure, many… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“What good literature can do and does do—far greater than any importation of morality—is touch the human soul.” — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“From that moment, and for the rest of my life, my mother's words--perceptive and many others--have helped me to be the thing she saw… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“God who spoke the world into existence with words is, in fact, the source of meaning of all words. My journey toward that discovery… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
“The more I thought about it, the more I realized that reading—that is, really reading, interpreting—literature is practice for reading and interpreting life. The… — Karen Swallow Prior Copy Share Image
