Mel

“Magic comes from freedom, from openness, from willingness. Play burbles up from the yes that lives in the dark space, the now, the gimme, the yearning urge to be and belong and become.
Our joy lives in the dizzying impulse we all learn to stifle as we grow — the voice of yes that tells us to close our eyes on the swings so we can feel the earth fall away beneath us, to lie in the grass with the sun warming our faces until we’re certain that it’s spinning, it’s really spinning, and we’re all spinning with it.
I told Cal that the dark space is light, and it is, but it is also play. To be at play is to release the light.”
― Mary Ann Rivers, The Dark Space

“Be good, Dorothy. For your mother's sake. And if you can't, be bad cleverly.”
― Geonn Cannon, The Virtuous Feats of the Indomitable Miss Trafalgar and the Erudite Lady Boone

“The generals. They’re all fucking men.” “I thought Souther was the only—” “I don’t mean that they all fuck men. I mean they’re all men, the fuckers.”
― James S.A. Corey, Caliban's War

“Feel so much better when you’re around,” I tell him. “’S not fair you get to be with you all the time.”
― Roan Parrish, In the Middle of Somewhere