Katie Fitzgerald

“Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden or, Life in the Woods

“The Christian life is not simply a waiting game in which we patiently bear misery until we die and hope that when we get there, we will qualify to move across the great divide and experience something better in the next life. Although we cannot fully experience this heavenly joy until the next life, we can experience it by degrees in this life, through the earthly Liturgy.”
― Leila Marie Lawler, The Little Oratory: A Beginner's Guide to Praying in the Home

“Housewives more than any other race deserve well-furnished minds. They have to live in them such a lot of the time.”
― Phyllis McGinley, Sixpence in Her Shoe

“No one could really hate a saint, could they? They can't really hate God either. When they want to Hate Him and His saints they have to find something like themselves and pretends it's God and hate that.”
― Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder