Marielle

“Here is the dirty little secret: the error rate in criminal verdicts is much higher than anyone imagines. Not just false negatives, the guilty criminals who get off scot-free—those "errors" we recognize and accept. They are the predictable result of stacking the deck in defendants' favor as we do. The real surprise is the frequency of false positives, the innocent men found guilty. That error rate we do not acknowledge—do not even think about—because it calls so much into question. The fact is, what we call proof is as fallible as the witnesses who produce it, human beings all. Memories fail, eyewitness identifications are notoriously unreliable, even the best-intentioned cops are subject to failures of judgment and recall. The human element in any system is always prone to error.”
― William Landay, Defending Jacob

“... Brandy says not to watch myself too close.

"Honey," she says, "times like this, it helps to think of yourself as a sofa or a newspaper, something made by a lot of other people but not made to last forever.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters

“Your heart has a little empty corner. You won't even know I'm there -- I'll be very quiet.”
― Joseph Gordon-Levitt, The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories, Vol. 2

“It wasn't perfect. It isn't now. I still
have days when I want to exit the
system quicker than you can say don't
you dare give up now
and you still have days where you
can't even taste the sweet in raw
honey and neither one of us believes
in pills.
Days when I so want to kiss you but
your mouth is sour and my thoughts
are bitter and I'm angry, just mad, just
crazy with it all
but we are each other's home sweet
home, Love.
The roof is screwed on too tight at
times and the walls of our house can
punch a little but, my God, they are
always warm.”
― Yrsa Daley-Ward, bone