the mistress witch from mcclure

you’ve never been south of what blows off your mouth,
you will never understand, ever

“And where are you from, then?”

He stands up straighter.

“Massachusetts. Why?”

She laughs.

“And what are you doing out West?”

That milkmaid’s lot is better than mine, 
and her life merrier. 

ELIZABETH I, while imprisoned by Mary I.

“Good lord, 007, how could you have possibly failed to realize who you were dealing with? This woman is lethal.”

Oona Chaplin’s five-second role in Quantum of Solace as a surprise!lead later.

“The perennial sadness of a girl who is both Death and the Maiden.”

ANGELA CARTER

‘I am sentimental,’ she said. ‘I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.’

VLADIMIR NABOKOV

“O that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.”

- Much Ado About Nothing, William Shakespeare.

“Someone has been down here stealing swords. Brandon’s is gone as well.”

“He would hate that.” She pulled off her glove and touched his knee, pale flesh against dark stone.