Tutti Dolci

“The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.”
― Brennan Manning, The Ragamuffin Gospel

“Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.”
― Jane Yolen, Touch Magic: Fantasy, Faerie & Folklore in the Literature of Childhood

“To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.”
― Victor Hugo