#wick

Staring at a world too horrible to comprehend, believing -- by dint of ignorance and innocence -- that beneath this unbearable contract of guilt and blame there is always an older contract that may bind and release in a more salutary way. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#dorothy #hope #ignorance #innocence #philosophy

Mortals are such fragile things. Just tender feelings walking around exposed in their delicate shells...Easy to crush. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#keenan #melissa-marr #wicked-lovely #love

Seth gave her that: a private space to believe in the illusion of normalcy. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#seth #wicked-lovely #love

He did not blame them. Because in truth, that's what he did, what he was. Seduce and dominate. Charm and manipulate. A user of women. How they would scoff, Rothbury mused bitterly, if they knew that he was secretly in love with the silly little chit, spectacles and all. ↗

— Olivia Parker

#romance #rothbury #to-wed-a-wicked-earl #love

You are my king. You could command me to stop seeing her." Niall turned his gaze to Irial. "What would you do?" "Blind myself, if you were foolish enough to use those words. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#irial #love #loyalty #niall #sight

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#belief #capable #every #evil #men

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. ↗

— Jonathan Swift

#i #men #never #often #see

I'm so glad to be grouped with the men you've seen in rotten shape. My hope is that someday I will reach the pinnacle of that appalling list. ↗

— Ginn Hale

#wicked-gentlemen #men

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#fantasy #wicked #men

By God, if women had written stories, As clerks had within here oratories, They would have written of men more wickedness Than all the mark of Adam may redress. ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#dishonesty #evil #gender #inequality #men