#wick

The Framers were no more interested in binding future Americans to a set of divinely inspired commandments than any of us would wish to be bound by them. ↗

— Dahlia Lithwick

#jurisprudence #slate #inspirational

We only have babies when we're young enough not to know how grim life turns out. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#melena #mother #pregnancy #wicked #life

How truly novel. The emotional life of furniture. I never. ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#life

For one short wet month early in the next year the drought lifted. Spring tipped in like green well water frothing at the hedges bubbling at the roadside splashing from the cottage roof in garlands of ivy and stringflower ↗

— Gregory Maguire

#life

For children are innocent and love justice, while most of us are wicked and naturally prefer mercy. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#justice #mercy #wickedness #love

As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable. ↗

— Melissa Marr

#love

She stepped closer to one of the statues. It looked wide-eyed, almost afraid as she reached out her hand. One of the women reached out and snatched Aislinn's still uplifted hand. "No." The women spoke all at once, not to her or to Keenan, but softly-as if to themselves-in a sibilant whisper. "He's ours. Fair exchange. Not yours to interfere. ↗

— Melissa Marr

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