Dena

“When you are writing laws you are testing words to find their utmost power. Like spells, they have to make things happen in the real world, and like spells, they only work if people believe in them.”
― Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

“Tell me, what is it you plan to do
with your one wild and precious life?”
― Mary Oliver

“To make a thief, make an owner; to create crime, create laws.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed: An Ambiguous Utopia

“The first draft of anything is shit.”
― Ernest Hemingway