Mouse And Cat Quotes

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Let me know which stars you prefer. The ones above you, or the ones I make you see.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
you can’t tell a single thing about a person’s true character if you both want the same thing. That’s like a dog and a cat getting along because they both want to kill the mouse.
Taylor Jenkins Reid (The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo)
She watched him, her head angled. He sometimes felt that she looked at him the way a cat regards a mouse. He just wondered how long it would take for her to pounce.
Sarah J. Maas (Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1))
When you make someone fall in love with the darkest parts of you, there’s nothing you can do that will scare them away. They will be yours forever because they already love all the fucked up bits and pieces of you.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
I want to slap him. But the asshole would probably like it, and then turn around and slap me back. And my dumbass self would probably like it, too.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Baby, you rule the fucking kingdom, and I will gladly bow to you.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Heaven isn’t a place you go to when you die, it’s inside the person that’s worth dying for.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
Meadows, baby. Our last name is Meadows.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
Cat got your tongue, little mouse?
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Sneaking off with random men, little mouse? If I catch his hands anywhere near you, they’ll end up in your mailbox by morning. A
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
All I want to do is break her. Shatter her into pieces. And then arrange those pieces to fit against my own. I don’t care if they don’t fit—I’ll fucking make them.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Without you, I will shatter. But with you, I am indestructible.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
Love is an enigma, and it's redefined every time someone says it.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Sometimes the happiest people are the saddest,
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
If it’s real, then I’ve chased you across time and space, and you’ve never been able to get away.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
I don’t care if I need to set this world on fire until there’s no one left but you and me. The world will burn around us, and I’ll gladly live in chaos with you as long as the only person that is a danger to you is me.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
I’m going to burn the entire fucking world down until I find her, and I don’t care who gets burnt.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.
Franz Kafka
Look," I whisper to Cat, "Shooting star! That's good luck." She rolls her eyes. "It's a plane, you idiot," she says, and when I look again I can see that she's right. Typical.
Cathy Cassidy (Lucky Star)
If my redemption resides somewhere within you, then I will spend the rest of my life searching for it inside of you.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Our mouths are touching the same spot,” she says shakily. “Does that count as kissing?” “You tell me, little mouse. When I make you cry out for God, does that count as praying?
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
Zade,” he whispers against my lips. “That’s the only name that will ever leave your lips from now on, especially when you’re making that little pussy feel good. And when I’m making that pussy feel good, then you can call me God.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Bluestar blinked. "There are cats who would argue that there should never have been a fifth Clan in the forest at all. Why are there four oaks at Fourtrees, if not to stand for the four Clans?" Firestar gazed up at the massive oak trees, then back at Bluestar. Fury pure as a lighting flash rushed through his body. "Are you mouse-brained?" he snarled. "Are you telling me SkyClan had to leave because there weren't enough trees?
Erin Hunter (Firestar's Quest (Warriors Super Edition, #1))
You and I will never end, little mouse. Even when we’re six feet under, and our bones are dust, I will haunt your soul until it aches to be free of me. And then, I will hold you tighter.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
I’m not a jail, little mouse, I am your sanctuary.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
I’m hungry as a church mouse, Hope. Do you have anything to eat? Hope looked down at His Whiskery Lordship swishing his black tail back and forth at her. He’d tucked a blue paper napkin into his collar. “When did you wake up?” she asked.
Lyn Key (Nozy Cat 2: A Hope Jones Cozy Mystery)
Because then I wouldn’t be true to myself, little mouse. I love that I scare you. I love that you try to run from me. The push and pull. The cat and mouse game. I fucking love it. And I think a part of you does, too.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
He was desperate to tell his news to some other cat; he almost felt that if a mouse crossed his path he would stop to inform it that it was about to be eaten by a ThunderClan deputy.
Erin Hunter (Sunset (Warriors: The New Prophecy, #6))
His voice is full of dark promises and dangerous beginnings.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Zade may be Hades, but the dark God has never been known to bow for anyone but his woman.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
She holds on to me like she’s falling, but I have no interest in catching her. I will always fall with her, chasing after her even in death.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
Run, if I catch you, I f-k you.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Pick-a-lock, Pick-a-lock, you'll regret the day, When you took a mouse thief and locked him away, Silly cat, look at that, it's two for one, A thief and a warrior, by dawn will be gone.
Brian Jacques (Mossflower (Redwall, #2))
What you’re seeing now is what I see every day. No matter how far I run, how hard I try to escape you—you’re everywhere I go. You’re everything I see. Loving you is like being trapped in a house of mirrors, little mouse. And I’ve never felt so at home while being so lost inside you.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
His eyes are tracing my curves like they're scripture, and he's a sinner that is searching for proof of a God that he no longer can hear.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Stop littering. Yes, baby.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
I may own every breath in your body, but make no mistake, Adeline, you own mine, too. I am yours to command. To bend and break. To mold and manipulate. Do you think that makes me weak? Or do you think I'm strong enough to admit that even though my body can physically live on without you, I would never get my fucking soul back?
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
What did I tell you, little mouse? That you couldn’t escape me. If it’s real, then I’ve chased you across time and space, and you’ve never been able to get away.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
tried so hard to run from him, and now all I want to do is run to him.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
I need therapy.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
What you’ve forgotten is that the heart beating inside your chest isn’t fucking yours,” he snarls. “It’s mine. And if my heart has stopped working, then pull that trigger, little mouse. Kill the rest of me. I’m nothing if I’m not the reason you breathe.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
The time for lies and secrets is over," she meowed. "The truth must come out. Starclan was wrong not to tell you who you were a long time ago." Then what-?" Jayfeather began, but already Yellowfang's shape was beginning to fade, melting into the moonlight until she was gone. The moonlight abrubtly vanished, leaving Jayfeather in darkness as he woke from his dream. Mouse dung! Why can't any cat speak straight out?" he hissed
Erin Hunter
My body is just a vessel that my soul inhabits, attached to a shell that it'll one day leave. And when that day comes, I won’t care to let that shell go. I carry my body around because I have to, not because it's a choice. But when I possess something meaningful, I’m choosing to hold on to it. Carrying something meaningful in my skin is effortless but holding onto something that I could lose—that takes devotion.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Did she cry out for God?” he pushes. “Yes,” Xavier spits, and fuck, I’m falling apart. I thrust against Zade’s hand, rolling my hips mindlessly, the bliss eroding my entire being. “Good,” he says, a grin in his voice. “That means she was crying out for me.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
I guess I wanted to see roses all over your house, too. Maybe because you feel like home.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
This isn’t a climb to heaven. It’s a fall from grace.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Little mouse," a voice said through the keyhole. "Don't you know the more you wriggle, the greater the cat's delight?
Holly Black (The Coldest Girl in Coldtown)
There is probably no better or more reliable measure of whether a woman has spent time in ugly duckling status at some point or all throughout her life than her inability to digest a sincere compliment. Although it could be a matter of modesty, or could be attributed to shyness- although too many serious wounds are carelessly written off as "nothing but shyness"- more often a compliment is stuttered around about because it sets up an automatic and unpleasant dialogue in the woman's mind. If you say how lovely she is, or how beautiful her art is, or compliment anything else her soul took part in, inspired, or suffused, something in her mind says she is undeserving and you, the complimentor, are an idiot for thinking such a thing to begin with. Rather than understand that the beauty of her soul shines through when she is being herself, the woman changes the subject and effectively snatches nourishment away from the soul-self, which thrives on being acknowledged." "I must admit, I sometimes find it useful in my practice to delineate the various typologies of personality as cats and hens and ducks and swans and so forth. If warranted, I might ask my client to assume for a moment that she is a swan who does not realzie it. Assume also for a moment that she has been brought up by or is currently surrounded by ducks. There is nothing wrong with ducks, I assure them, or with swans. But ducks are ducks and swans are swans. Sometimes to make the point I have to move to other animal metaphors. I like to use mice. What if you were raised by the mice people? But what if you're, say, a swan. Swans and mice hate each other's food for the most part. They each think the other smells funny. They are not interested in spending time together, and if they did, one would be constantly harassing the other. But what if you, being a swan, had to pretend you were a mouse? What if you had to pretend to be gray and furry and tiny? What you had no long snaky tail to carry in the air on tail-carrying day? What if wherever you went you tried to walk like a mouse, but you waddled instead? What if you tried to talk like a mouse, but insteade out came a honk every time? Wouldn't you be the most miserable creature in the world? The answer is an inequivocal yes. So why, if this is all so and too true, do women keep trying to bend and fold themselves into shapes that are not theirs? I must say, from years of clinical observation of this problem, that most of the time it is not because of deep-seated masochism or a malignant dedication to self-destruction or anything of that nature. More often it is because the woman simply doesn't know any better. She is unmothered.
Clarissa Pinkola Estés (Women Who Run With the Wolves)
I keep from gritting my teeth, though all I really want to do right now is grind them to dust. The main reason I don’t is because I would no longer be able to bite Addie’s clit.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Mom, please don't use 'the happy voice.' It reminds me of the day Tinkles died." "Who was Tinkles?" Sue asked around a mouthful of pancake. "My cat. When I was five, Tinkles died choking on a mouse that was a bit ambitious for a kitten to eat." "It was terribly traumatic for Aurelia because it was the first time she'd experienced loss."  "What did you do to help her get through it?"  Rosalind smiled at Mother Guardian. "Well, after a good cry, we performed an autopsy." Aurelia reached for her mother's hand. "I never thanked you for that.
Therisa Peimer (Taming Flame)
Run little mouse
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Remember this moment,” he growls deeply, withdrawing to the tip before pushing deeper inside of me. “Because the next time I fuck you, you will be deeply in love with me, Adeline. I’m your stalker and a murderer, and you will love me anyways.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Scars only serve as reminders of what we’ve survived, not what killed us.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
Just don’t forget to scream my name when you’re holding that showerhead to your pussy. You can come knowing that I’ll be shouting yours, too.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
I love you, Zade. Sometimes I can’t fucking stand it,” I say, my voice raspy and uneven. “But it was the only thing that kept me alive. You saved me. Even when we were apart, you saved me. And I hope to God you never stop hunting me.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
You’ll always be safe with me, little mouse. Always.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people
Jonathan Franzen (Freedom)
You can’t escape me, little mouse. I will always find you.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Let me feel you fall in love,
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
if I had fallen in love with a lie, I would’ve been devastated. I just wish he wasn’t such a bad guy. But then he’d be a different man—a man you might not be able to love.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Meadows, baby. Our last name is Meadows.” “Yours. Don’t get ahead of yourself. You’ll be expected to beg.” There’s no stopping the savage grin from gracing my lips. “I love to beg.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
You can throw glitter on a snake, but the bitch still bites.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
He meant you no harm?" said Omoro. "He acted very friendly," said the old man, "but the cat always eats the mouse it plats with.
Alex Haley (Roots: The Saga of an American Family)
I have never pretended to be a good person. But what I did do was create my own fucking morals to live by. I will keep killing every deranged individual who resides on this goddamn planet if it means children don’t have to die, and you don't have to live in danger.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
I never understood why the sickest of humanity go out of their way to appear the prettiest. You can throw glitter on a snake, but the bitch still bites.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
You don’t need a cop to get me in handcuffs, baby. I’ll let you do anything you want to me.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
The moment I saw her sitting in that bookstore, working to hide her nerves and anxiety, there I was—a grown-ass man, falling in obsession at first sight.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
No matter how far I run, how hard I try to escape you --you're everywhere I go. You're everything I see. Loving you is like being trapped in a house of mirrors, little mouse. And I've never felt so at home while being so lost inside you.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
You.. love me?'' Snow nods. ''Yeah,'' he says, ''of course.'' Like it's obvious. It isn't obvious. It has not been obvious. ''You never said,'' I say. ''Haven't I?'' ''No.'' He frowns. ''I thought- I mean... I've killed so many things for you.'' I laught. It might be another sob, but mabe it's just a laugh. ''What are you, a house cat? Am I supposed to know how you feel because you brought me a mouse?'' The corner of Snow's mouth twitches. ''I brought you a cow once, remember? And I killed that chimera for you in fifth year.
Rainbow Rowell (Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow, #3))
It's like trying to train an ADD cat in a mouse factory.
Sherrilyn Kenyon (Infamous (Chronicles of Nick, #3))
If you’re my death, then I’m your fucking lifeline.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
These men may be skilled in hunting, but what they don't know is that I've been hunted by a far scarier man.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
Because the first time I fuck you, I want you to have all of me. Not just bits and pieces.” He takes a breath. “I’m not whole right now. And I can’t worship you when all I see is her.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
I’m going to make her fall in love with every single fucked up part of me. I want this girl to see me at my most depraved. I want her to experience the true darkness residing in my soul.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Oh, God—” she sucks in a sharp breath. “That’s right, I am your God.” “Zade!
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
There will never be an end to me and you.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
We’re going to burn down the world together.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
That man ate the soul out of my body, and I don’t think I’ve gotten it back yet.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
We know you’re a bad bitch, Zade.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
Maybe humans need animals to help them understand the world. Certainly it’s hard to see what else cats do for humans, aside from looking cute and killing the odd mouse.
Elly Griffiths (A Dying Fall (Ruth Galloway, #5))
And I like a mouse who has taken a cat for its tutor.
Seth Grahame-Smith (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, #1))
A pink razor is like a mouse, where ever it is the pussy will follow.
Helen Ellis (Eating the Cheshire Cat)
You need to figure out your morals, and what you’re okay living with. Not what you’ve been taught, but what you feel in your gut.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
You are in my church where I am your God, and you are my equal. I’m not a jail, little mouse, I am your sanctuary
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Will you be my last meal, baby?
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
I don't think you know what love is," I whisper. He grunts with amusement. "I don't think anyone does, baby. Love is an enigma, and it's redefined every time someone says it.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Piece by piece, we both crumble, the chips falling around us in a waterfall of anguish. And I just know that when Zade picks up our scattered pieces and stitches us back together, we’ll be forever entwined.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
An embarrassing scream escapes as he changes the angle of his hips and hits a spot that instantly makes my legs violently shake. “Oh my God,” I moan. And this time, I can’t stop my head from dropping back to the mirror behind me and my eyes from rolling backwards. “That's right, baby. I am your fucking God,” he growls before I feel his teeth sink into my neck.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
Instantly, her eyes widen into caramel marbles, and her face pales about five shades lighter. I’m ready to squirt some spray tan lotion on her if it means she doesn’t make it so damn obvious that she’s not happy to see me.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
What he doesn’t know is that the minute I properly introduce myself to Adeline Reilly, she won’t be able to think of anyone else. I will devour her from the inside out, until every intake of breath will only stoke the inferno I've created inside her. Like oxygen feeding a fire, I will consume every inch of her sweet little body until she will think of nothing else but how to get me deeper inside of her.
H.D. Carlton (Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1))
If your opponent is of choleric temper, you should seek to irritate him. Pretend to be weak so that he grows arrogant. The good tactician plays with his enemy like a cat plays with a mouse. Feign weakness and immobility, and then pounce on him.
R.F. Kuang (The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1))
Wouldn't it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?' That would be the easiest transformation, but Risto is above doing something simple.' Still, I'd be happier if Dibl would quit eating those bugs. Dibl, stop it. You might eat Gilda.
Donita K. Paul (DragonQuest (DragonKeeper Chronicles, #2))
At least you’ll end up marrying a rich man,” I comment. She pins me with a dry look. “Now I can never marry you. It’s my life’s purpose to disappoint her in every decision I make.” I arch a brow. “Don’t underestimate me, Addie. I’ll become a poor man for you.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
You’re brave. Incredibly brave, and a goddamn survivor, and it’s admirable as fuck. You have no idea how proud of you I am. But you’re also impulsive, and reactive, and I refuse to lose you again, do you hear me? I won’t. Which means that you have to listen to me, and you cannot go off and do your own thing because you think you’re helping. We’re a team, baby. Got it?
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!
T.S. Eliot (Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats)
She approaches me slowly. “Let’s run some scenarios. What do you do when a man asks you to get on your knees for him?” “Get on my knees,” I answer, my voice hoarse. “And when he tells you to unfasten his pants and take out his cock?” “Do as he says.” She nods, studying me closely. “And then what?” Bite his dick off.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
Zade is quiet for a beat. “Happiness is fleeting. All that matters is that they’re living their life the way they want to.” “You believe that?” I ask, facing him. “That happiness is fleeting?” He shrugs, tossing the last bite of his cone into his mouth, and chews as he contemplates something. “Absolutely,” he says finally. “It’s not something solid you can hold on to. It’s vapor in the wind, and all you can do is inhale it when it’s near and hope it comes around again when it blows away.
H.D. Carlton (Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2))
Yeah. He looked like a cat who'd found his favorite mouse wounded or something. It was eerie. And he started to make fun of her, like all cruel and stuff. The things he said to her were horrible and he was only playing with her. She didn't try to defend herself. I guess Mason Kade really hates that girl, and the way he ripped into her. It was something else." "He enjoyed it." Adam's voice was quiet. I looked over and held his gaze. Something dark was in their depths. He spoke again, "It was like an animal that was playing with its kill before they fully killed it. That's what he was doing with her. I've never seen anything like it before.
Tijan (Fallen Crest High (Fallen Crest High, #1))
IT IS SO EASY TO GIVE IN I have been thinking about the man who gives in. Have you heard about him? In this story A twenty-eight-foot pine meets a small wind And the pine bends all the way over to the ground. I was persuaded,” the pine says. “It was convincing.” A mouse visits a cat, and the cat agrees To drown all her children. “What could I do?” The cat said. “The mouse needed that.” It’s strange. I’ve heard that some people conspire In their own ruin. A fool says, “You don’t Deserve to live.” The man says, “I’ll string this rope Over that branch, maybe you can find a box.” The Great One with her necklace of skulls says, I need twenty thousand corpses.” “Tell you what,” The General says, “we have an extra battalion Over there on the hill. We don’t need all these men.
Robert Bly (Morning Poems)
January? The month is dumb. It is fraudulent. It does not cleanse itself. The hens lay blood-stained eggs. Do not lend your bread to anyone lest it nevermore rise. Do not eat lentils or your hair will fall out. Do not rely on February except when your cat has kittens, throbbing into the snow. Do not use knives and forks unless there is a thaw, like the yawn of a baby. The sun in this month begets a headache like an angel slapping you in the face. Earthquakes mean March. The dragon will move, and the earth will open like a wound. There will be great rain or snow so save some coal for your uncle. The sun of this month cures all. Therefore, old women say: Let the sun of March shine on my daughter, but let the sun of February shine on my daughter-in-law. However, if you go to a party dressed as the anti-Christ you will be frozen to death by morning. During the rainstorms of April the oyster rises from the sea and opens its shell — rain enters it — when it sinks the raindrops become the pearl. So take a picnic, open your body, and give birth to pearls. June and July? These are the months we call Boiling Water. There is sweat on the cat but the grape marries herself to the sun. Hesitate in August. Be shy. Let your toes tremble in their sandals. However, pick the grape and eat with confidence. The grape is the blood of God. Watch out when holding a knife or you will behead St. John the Baptist. Touch the Cross in September, knock on it three times and say aloud the name of the Lord. Put seven bowls of salt on the roof overnight and the next morning the damp one will foretell the month of rain. Do not faint in September or you will wake up in a dead city. If someone dies in October do not sweep the house for three days or the rest of you will go. Also do not step on a boy's head for the devil will enter your ears like music. November? Shave, whether you have hair or not. Hair is not good, nothing is allowed to grow, all is allowed to die. Because nothing grows you may be tempted to count the stars but beware, in November counting the stars gives you boils. Beware of tall people, they will go mad. Don't harm the turtle dove because he is a great shoe that has swallowed Christ's blood. December? On December fourth water spurts out of the mouse. Put herbs in its eyes and boil corn and put the corn away for the night so that the Lord may trample on it and bring you luck. For many days the Lord has been shut up in the oven. After that He is boiled, but He never dies, never dies.
Anne Sexton