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“My alone time is sometimes for your safety.”
“My alone time is sometimes for your safety.”
Finding a douchebag in Chicago did not take any special skill.
Finding a douchebag in Chicago did not take any special skill.
Hipsterman was one of those men whose place at the top of the food chain had resulted in the kind of confidence only someone with no natural predators had.
Hipsterman was one of those men whose place at the top of the food chain had resulted in the kind of confidence only someone with no natural predators had.
“My wife has been reading Regency romance novels to escape the news.” “As one does,” I said with a nod.
“My wife has been reading Regency romance novels to escape the news.” “As one does,” I said with a nod.
“Monsters don’t like kitchens. They’re allergic to all the love in them.”
He says that moose reminded him to love like it was the only thing in life that mattered, because even a moose knows love is worth putting your life on the line for.”
“That’s Wolf, by the way,” Isaac said by way of introduction. “Is she one?” I asked. “They all are in spirit. Some are just less shit at it than others,”
I turned to Wolf. “You’re not a shit wolf.” She gave me a look that said clearly not, and we left it at that.
“Well, that’s something,” I said, because really, what else could a guy say when a mummified toe floated in his drink?
“You swallow it, you pay twenty-five hundred. Had to up it from five hundred after some damn tourist swallowed it, slapped the money on the bar, and said it was worth it. Toes are too hard to come by. Not enough frostbite these days.”
To everything there’s a season, and when it’s darkest, that’s the time to find laughter.”
“Our women have always voted, held office, been an equal part of governance and leadership and because all people come from their mothers, we call your mother your ‘first teacher.’”
“You two are deeply weird, and I have to say, I’m here for it,” I said.
“It’s a butt-bitey world out there, but someone’s got to poo in it,” Reed agreed sympathetically.
“Oh, Sis, old dogs like us, we don’t roll over so easy.”
“For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive.”
“That’s probably just pride. Men seem to be afflicted with certain varieties that result in retreat.”
“You don’t live out loud. Your privacy is your right, but when you don’t share yourself, you’re not an obvious safe space for other people to share themselves with you.”
“I don’t like you very much right now.” “I’m kind of an asshole, right?” she said cheerfully.
“In our culture,” Grandpop continued, “we marry Ravens. Opposites. To keep the blood of our children strong.”
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.” ANAÏS NIN
“Rio cried and cried when you went away,” he said, “but I’m bigger, so I only cried a little bit.”
about it for a moment, then he nodded. “That’s okay, then. Mama said tears wash out things that hurt.”
God, I loved a man who took direction.
“In our culture, if someone saves your life, they cannot own it. For us, life is a sacred journey and each day is sort of a pop quiz. You try your best, win some, lose some, and then tomorrow you start over again.”
“Non-negotiables are the things that other relationships, the broken ones, teach us we don’t want—as in, if you see that quality or you recognize that barrier, run the other way.”
