Laura

“I quickly learned, however, that a university education is not a prerequisite to reading Shakespeare. After all, his original audience was not college-educated. Neither was he.”
― Laura Bates, Shakespeare Saved My Life: Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard

“In the ideal, our writing would be a feast, welcoming and enlivening to our readers. Yet we must recognize that a reader is also a kind of host. Readers receive our writing, bringing it into their homes, giving it their time and attention. The challenge of charitable writing, then, isn't simply to be a good host. It is, at the same time, to be a good guest. Our aspiration must not be simply to love others through our writing, as if we are all-sufficient. With all humility, we may earnestly hope that our writing will be an occasion to be loved.”
― Richard Hughes Gibson, Charitable Writing: Cultivating Virtue Through Our Words

“When other forms of law oppress us, we quite naturally retreat into autonomy, or self-law.”
― Alan Noble, You Are Not Your Own: Belonging to God in an Inhuman World

“I sometimes think ‘just this once’ is the most dangerous phrase in the English language.”
― H.G. Parry, A Declaration of the Rights of Magicians