“No one is all bad. No one is all good. We live as equals in the murky gray between.”
― Notes on an Execution
― Notes on an Execution
“Tragedy had a texture. A knot, begging to be unraveled.”
― Notes on an Execution
― Notes on an Execution
“A lifetime thus far of being alone. Of knowing I would be alone, forever. To stand in a full room and know oneself to be apart, that invisible barrier between you and them to be in every way uncrossable. To find the will to exist in a world so wholly unsuited for you.”
― Maeve Fly
― Maeve Fly
“I have never understood, and still do not understand the notion that a woman must first endure a victimhood of some sort—abandonment, abuse, oppression of the patriarchy—to be monstrous. Men have always been permitted in fiction and in life to simply be what they are, no matter how dark or terrifying that might be. But with a woman, we expect an answer, a reason. But why would she do it? Why, why, why?”
― Maeve Fly
― Maeve Fly
“We are all bad, and we are all good, and no one should be condemned to one or the other. But if good can be tainted with the bad that comes after, then where do you place it? How do you count it? How much is it really worth?”
― Notes on an Execution
― Notes on an Execution
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