Molly

“The trees have to be tied down by sunset. When the Woodsmen come, they always try to run.”
― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman

“As you swallow the cow’s tongue, think for a moment about how strange and holy that is, to devour the tongue of another. To steal from it all its power to speak, to low at the moon, to call to its calf. To be worthy of such food you must guard your own words carefully, speaking only the wise and clever ones, lest your tongue end up likewise, on the plate of a rich man.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“This morning, everything looks clean from the snow that fell last night and I imagine the icy frost coating the inside of my lungs and mind, making my thoughts white and pure.”
― Rena Rossner, The Sisters of the Winter Wood

“I can't swallow the thought of the Woodsmen killing the little part of her that's left in me, the facsimile of our shared blood.”
― Ava Reid, The Wolf and the Woodsman