Cuc Lawler

“We can only truly have but one love in our life.”
― Amanda Adams, The Voyeur's Yacht

“We have magic you do not dream of.” That was Janet, although Mary could not see the diminutive witch.”
― Susan Rowland, The Swan Lake Murders

“You’d think the earth
would long ago surrender
but instead she flowers,
rising from her meager dirt
to fill the sky with color.”
― Don Hynes, Something Will Change Me: Poems of Hope, Healing, and Personal Transformation

“Seeing misery everywhere and detesting it, and sincere in wanting to do something about it. Sincere– that was the hell of it. From a distance, one's adversaries seemed fiends, but with a closer view, one saw the sincerity, and it was as great as one's own.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz