Mary

“If you have not confronted true horrors, understood evil, suffered hopelessness and despair, found faith, and made yourself completely accountable for your own choices, actions and outcomes, then I can guarantee that any acceptance you pretend to have will be as brittle and temporary as a snowball in the middle of summer.”
― Graeme Rodaughan, The Crane War

“Not a red rose or a satin heart.

I give you an onion.
It is a moon wrapped in brown paper,
It promises light
Like the careful undressing of love.

Here.
It will blind you with tears
Like a lover.”
― Carol Ann Duffy

“We don't need to be good. But let's try to be fair.”
― Holly Black, The Cruel Prince

“Look, we all have wishes; granted.
But who has wishes granted?”
― Carol Ann Duffy, New Selected Poems, 1984-2004