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“Love yourself loudly, dangerously, everywhere people have been afraid to love you, afraid to ask the way to cherish you, afraid to hold you. Love yourself most in these places, because who can be a better teacher to others in how to love you than you yourself.”
― Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty
― Wild Embers: Poems of Rebellion, Fire and Beauty
“Lots of people deserve to die,” said the dust-wife finally. “Not everybody deserves to be a killer.”
― Nettle & Bone
― Nettle & Bone
“This poem is not good enough because
Other women have also written poems
And, as everyone knows
There can only be one woman
Above all the others
Who has clawed and killed to get there
But maybe she doesn't have children
So
She's not good enough either
And she dies on the heap
with the rest of us”
― Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry
Other women have also written poems
And, as everyone knows
There can only be one woman
Above all the others
Who has clawed and killed to get there
But maybe she doesn't have children
So
She's not good enough either
And she dies on the heap
with the rest of us”
― Useless Magic: Lyrics and Poetry
“Kiss me again,” he says, drunk and foolish. “Kiss me until I am sick of it.”
― The Wicked King
― The Wicked King
“How did you get a demon in your chicken?'
'The usual way. Couldn't put it in the rooster. That's how you get basilisks.”
― Nettle & Bone
'The usual way. Couldn't put it in the rooster. That's how you get basilisks.”
― Nettle & Bone
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