“My heart feels zested. Finely shredded and ready to add to cake batter. It doesn’t hurt, because it’s not there anymore. Like the angel’s chest, with her empty heart hole—but without the sparkler.”
― Night of Cake & Puppets
― Night of Cake & Puppets
“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
“If you're going to think and be depressed, you might as well do it with pie, right?”
― Necromancer
― Necromancer
“I cup the bead in my hand and smile as I drift toward sleep, wondering what my rainy days are going to look like now. As good as my snowy ones, I think. I’m going to need a bigger umbrella.”
― Night of Cake & Puppets
― Night of Cake & Puppets
“Curious. (You know, if curious means “impossible” or “freaky” or…“indelibly awesome.”) And now my head feels all full of moonlight or starlight or something. Or snow. My head feels like a snow globe that’s been shaken, and glitter is swirling around in it like unmoored stars.”
― Night of Cake & Puppets
― Night of Cake & Puppets
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