Minotaurs Quotes

“In three days," he continued, "I will be your husband. I will take a solemn vow to protect you until death do us part. Do you understand what that means?"
"You'll save me from marauding minotaurs?”
― Julia Quinn, Romancing Mister Bridgerton

“You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

“The architecture of the Minotaur’s heart is ancient. Rough hewn and many chambered, his heart is a plodding laborious thing, built for churning through the millennia. But the blood it pumps—the blood it has pumped for five thousand years, the blood it will pump for the rest of his life—is nearly human blood. It carries with it, through his monster’s veins, the weighty, necessary, terrible stuff of human existence: fear, wonder, hope, wickedness, love. But in the Minotaur’s world it is far easier to kill and devour seven virgins year after year, their rattling bones rising at his feet like a sea of cracked ice, than to accept tenderness and return it.”
― Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break

“where there's a labyrinth, there's a minotaur, and vice versa! I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There

“Cecie keeps telling him she’d like to take him home some night, husband or no. The Minotaur waits hopefully. Husband or no.”
― Steven Sherrill, The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break

“There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to a musical half man half bull was all bull.”
― Don Roff, Heebie-Jeebies: Volume One

“There are worse things than minotaurs at the centre.”
― Cherie Priest, Maplecroft