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My eyes widen as I take in how high I am, how far I can see across the masses, and how hundreds upon hundreds of eyes are fixed on me. Fainting would be a welcome respite. Come on, Stella. Faint! Do it! I remain stupidly conscious.
“Seeing her shiver, I want to take her into my coat and button it around her. I want to warm my face against her neck and steam her up like a mirror and write my name on her with my fingertip.”
― Night of Cake & Puppets
― Night of Cake & Puppets
“Seize the night.
And I blink and feel a surge of certainty and excitement, because of course that's what one does when one wants something. One seizes it. Well, maybe not all things. Cats, for example, do not respond well to seizure. Probably girls don't, either. So this might not be a good credo in life, but for Saturday nights in general and this one in particular, it works.”
― Night of Cake & Puppets
And I blink and feel a surge of certainty and excitement, because of course that's what one does when one wants something. One seizes it. Well, maybe not all things. Cats, for example, do not respond well to seizure. Probably girls don't, either. So this might not be a good credo in life, but for Saturday nights in general and this one in particular, it works.”
― Night of Cake & Puppets
“I've thought since that when folk grumble about this and that and be not happy, it is not the fault of creation, that is like a vast mere full of good, but it is the fault of their bucket's smallness.”
― Precious Bane
― Precious Bane
“No, I have to lure him out, like a will-o’-the-wisp, tease him deeper and deeper into the forest until he is lost and doomed. Without the forest or the doom—just the luring. Like a Venus flytrap that says I am a delicious flower come taste me and then snap! Devour. Without the devouring. Well, maybe a little devouring.”
― Night of Cake & Puppets
― Night of Cake & Puppets
“... and holy hell the chocolate is so intense and pure it should be named an element and given a spot on the periodic table. It would be Ch, which isn't even taken.”
― Night of Cake & Puppets
― Night of Cake & Puppets
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