Manny

“Your sweet-toting and sugarcoating is of no service to anyone! Do not sugarcoat reality; it only gives the people in your life a sweet-tooth that then makes it more challenging for them to later bite down on the hardness of life. Do not tote and tout sweets either – you’re malnourishing people! Instead give them the truth. What is the truth you may ask? Authentic expression of who you really are, how you really feel, without projecting the labels of right or wrong.”
― Alaric Hutchinson

“He kissed her because it came about quite naturally; he found sweetness sleeping still upon her lips, and felt that he had never been away.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“...the sweetness of grace and freedom comes hand in hand with the uncomfortable, bitter-rawness of honest emotions and grief.”
― Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life

“death tears off the mask that has been worn through life, and the real visage is disclosed.”
― Alexandre Dumas, The Count of Monte Cristo