{"quotes":[{"text":"And now,' said the unknown, 'farewell kindness, humanity, and gratitude! Farewell to all the feelings that expand the heart! I have been heaven's substitute to recompense the good - now the god of vengeance yields to me his power to punish the wicked!","author":"Alexandre Dumas","tags":["good","vengeance","wicked"],"id":10188,"author_id":"Alexandre+Dumas"},{"text":"I think I finally understand the saying like a moth to a flame. I’m the moth. My heart flutters like the paper thin wings. And he is the flame, incendiary, scorching my soul.He inhales so heavily, like he’s been holding his breath under water. He presses his lips against mine and tugs at my hair gently. My head falls back and my mouth falls open. His tongue, slick as silver, dances with mine.I’m wrong. I’m not a moth. I’m Icarus and I’ve flown too close to the sun.","author":"A.D. Evans","tags":["born-wicked","ethan","evans","first-kiss","kiss","love","sorcers","teens","wicked","witches"],"id":13696,"author_id":"A.D.+Evans"},{"text":"Of course. You get everything from books.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["books","knowledge","reading","wicked"],"id":18979,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"},{"text":"He would argue with her about killing themselves; and explain how wicked people were; how he could see them making up lies as they passed in the street. He knew all their thoughts, he said; he knew everything. He knew the meaning of the world, he said.","author":"Virginia Woolf","tags":["lies","septimus","suicide","wicked"],"id":23498,"author_id":"Virginia+Woolf"},{"text":"Only the wicked understand the ways of the wicked, my dear. ~Madame Zelda to Roller Deb.","author":"Red Tash","tags":["evil","humor","wicked"],"id":41576,"author_id":"Red+Tash"},{"text":"She was not sorry. And if it was the wine telling her that, then she would tell the wine the same thing tomorrow. She was not sorry.","author":"Mary Balogh","tags":["humor","mary-balogh","romance","slightly","wicked"],"id":46956,"author_id":"Mary+Balogh"},{"text":"I like the sound of words, but I don't ever really expect my slow, slanted impression of the world to change by what I read.","author":"Gregory Maguire","tags":["elphaba","reading","understanding","wicked","words"],"id":56305,"author_id":"Gregory+Maguire"},{"text":"When it comes to moral dilemmas and matters of discerning right justice, my natural sympathy so often happens to land on the opposite end of that of most of my peers. I sometimes wonder if this is nothing more than the misguidedness and the wickedness of my own heart. I wonder other times if God wires some of us in such a way so that fair discourse might then be provided, so that honest and unbiased, due process is ultimately more likely to be carried out. Perhaps it is all necessary for variance of perception, for mindful debate: that the heart is meant to create a bit of bias on certain issues; as between one another, they weigh and balance. For not all hearts are the same.","author":"Criss Jami","tags":["argument","bias","compassion","court","debate","discerning","discourse","discussion","empathy","evil","god","good","heart","immorality","injustice","judgment","justice","love","mercy","misguided","morality","opinions","perception","perspectives","problems","solutions","sympathy","trial","truth","variance","wicked"],"id":58650,"author_id":"Criss+Jami"},{"text":"I only have two fingers left.I wrote the lies of my farewell with two fingers.That is the truth.We are evil.They are kids.We are evil.","author":"James Dashner","tags":["chancellor","evil","farewell","kevin-anderson","truth","wicked"],"id":72947,"author_id":"James+Dashner"},{"text":"It's true what they say, Love is a wicked game,A game so wickedly played,I am at your command in your wicked games.","author":"Tanzy Sayadi","tags":["command","games","love","true","truth","wicked"],"id":76205,"author_id":"Tanzy+Sayadi"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":85,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}