"'We're not Christians,' they say. 'Christ stopped short of here, at Eboli.'" (1)

"But to this shadowy land, that knows neither sin nor redemption from sin, where evil is not moral but is only the pain residing forever in earthly things. Christ did not come. Christ stopped at Eboli." (2)

"A prisoner may find greater consolation in a cell with romantic, heavy iron bars than in one that superficially resembles a normal room." (5)

"... he was aware, in a primitive and sentimental fashion, of the decay and spiritual poverty around him, and he saw the war as an escape, an escape into a world of destruction." (28)

"She neither knew nor cared about Fascism; in her mind, to be the local Party leader was simply a means of holding the reins of power." (56)

"The village is built of the bones of the dead." (69)

"Here where time has come to a...