Quotes About Ignatius

I bet you cook good, huh? Darlene asked. Mother doesn't cook, Ignatius said dogmatically. She burns.

Shifting from one hip to the other in his lumbering, elephantine fashion, Ignatius sent waves of flesh rippling beneath the tweed and flannel, waves that broke upon buttons and seams. Thus

couples who swayed and dipped around the Gibraltar of a wallflower, Ignatius.

Attacked by a bird," Mrs. Reilly wept. "That hadda happen to you, Ignatius. Nobody never gets attacked by a bird.

Why you always knocking Santa, Ignatius? She appears to have been knocked a bit in her life already. Up rather than down. If she ever nears me, however, the direction will be reversed.

Yes? I shall have a coffee, Ignatius said grandly. Chicory coffee with boiled milk. Only instant, the bartender said. I can't possibly drink that, Ignatius told his mother. It's an abomination. Well, get a beer, Ignatius. It won't kill you. I may bloat.

is better to keep silent and to be, rather than to speak but not to be. One who truly possesses Christ's words can also hear his silence in order to be perfect … Nothing is hidden from the Lord but our very secrets are close to him. Let us do everything in him who dwells in us so that we may become his temples. Ignatius of Antioch Epistle to the Ephesians, 15,1-3 (SC 10, p. 84)