#wad

Saint Bo, a man christened with the miraculous ability to gentle horses, nervous women, and one year olds. ↗

— Becky Wade

#christian-romance #cowboy #humor #undeniably-yours #family

Roe has been a good friend, one women could count on when in trouble. We are on uncertain ground after Casey. Women, justifiably, feel vulnerable at a time so many years after their journey for reproductive freedom started. ↗

— Sarah Weddington

#pro-choice #roe-v-wade #women-s-rights #freedom

Well, in the meantime, Carter and I have been discussing the matter of Ryan." This time it wasn't the clang of a pan I heard, but instead a messy smack--the contact of Carter's backhand with Dean's head, I presumed. "Just hear me out. You have options. I have an Italian uncle. He'll make sure Ryan is sleeping with the fishes by next week." "Dean!" Unable to repress my amusement, my eyes flew wide and my grin grew. "Either that, or we can go all Sweeney Todd on him and--" "Oh, will you stop?" My laughter was crippling. "There will be no calls to your uncle and no trip to the barber shop--please, leave Sweeney Todd out of it. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#contemporary-romance #friendship #love #loyalty #preservation

Want me to drive?” Wade asks. “I won’t take any detours.” I slam on the brakes and come to a dead stop right in the middle of the road. “Sure. Why not? My life is one big fucking detour,” I yell. Then I bang my head on the steering wheel and I can’t help it. I start to cry. ↗

— Carolee Dean

#wade #life

It was a saying about noble figures in old Irish poems—he would give his hawk to any man that asked for it, yet he loved his hawk better than men nowadays love their bride of tomorrow. He would mourn a dog with more grief than men nowadays mourn their fathers. ↗

— Ted Hughes

#nowadays #love

What happened?” “I tried to be somebody different from who I am and it didn’t work out.” “The world ain’t set up that way. Folks say we oughta be better than we are, but deep down they just want us to stay in our places. With our own kind. Messes up the natural order, otherwise. ↗

— Carolee Dean

#wade #nature

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it. ↗

— Russell Baker

#insists #longer #loves #misery #nowadays

It doesn't matter what age you are. You can look sexy and feel great, and that doesn't have to be a gift only for the young. It can be a gift for any age, even the old, whatever that is nowadays. ↗

— Carol Alt

#any #even #feel #gift #great

People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world. ↗

— Louisa May Alcott

#fortunes #left #marry #men #money

Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#always #balance #between #coherence #create