Bluebeard's Egg: Feminist Literary Short Stories Exploring Fairy Tales Through a Contemporary Lens
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They are not rich in detail or embroidered with incident: they are stark and factual.
“Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you’re in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice; various freeloading insects have evolved a mellifluous existence because of this very fact. Humans act the same way.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“The Kraken stirs. And ten billion sushi dinners cry out for vengeance.”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“Watch out for that pedestrian!"
"It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
"It's on the street, it knows the risks it's taking!”
― Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
“This I want to believe implicitly: Man was born for love and revolution.”
― The Setting Sun
― The Setting Sun
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