Maxine
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“I will take your heart.
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
I will not be satisfied
With the little words you say to me.
I will not be satisfied
With the touch of your hand
Nor the sweet of your lips alone.
I will take your heart for mine.
I will take your soul.
I will be God when it comes to you.”
― Selected Poems
I will take your soul out of your body
As though I were God.
I will not be satisfied
With the little words you say to me.
I will not be satisfied
With the touch of your hand
Nor the sweet of your lips alone.
I will take your heart for mine.
I will take your soul.
I will be God when it comes to you.”
― Selected Poems
“If you listen long enough to the whispers, you will hear the truth. Until then, I will tell you this: the world is made safe by a woman. She bound the monster up and cast him out, and the man who was left was saved.”
― A Thousand Nights
― A Thousand Nights
“By night, Love, tie your heart to mine, and the two
together in their sleep will defeat the darkness”
― 100 Love Sonnets
together in their sleep will defeat the darkness”
― 100 Love Sonnets
“The monster tested her, pulling at her soul and rending her spirit. She clung to life, and in the clinging she might have become a monster too, except she chose the path her story would take. She chose white stone walls and a golden crown. She chose to debate words of law, and to never grind her own grain. She chose to fight men every day, and then fight their sons, who thought they knew better than their fathers.<...> If you listen long enough to the whispers, you will hear the truth. Until then, I will tell you this: the world is made safe by a woman.”
― A Thousand Nights
― A Thousand Nights
“She had storms all her life, but she died peacefully.”
― Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939
― Paris Was Yesterday, 1925-1939
Maxine’s 2025 Year in Books
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