Ronald J. Testa

“She chewed the tender meat and sucked out the juices and felt the sauce coat her tongue and roll down her throat. After that, he looked still better. Another”
― Jane Smiley, Moo

“But our David, he is a little rare for the world. Sometimes people destroy what they do not understand; what they haven’t seen before; what they are not expecting.”
― Eric Shaw Quinn, The Prince's Psalm

“We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone. My life is in these books, he wants to tell her. Read these and know my heart. We are not quite novels. The analogy he is looking for is almost there. We are not quite short stories. At this point, his life is seeming closest to that. In the end, we are collected works.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry