“She offered herself to the big, bad wolf and didn't scream when he took the first bite.”
Source: Wintergirls
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Laurie Halse Anderson147
American children's writer 1961Related quotes
“When the bells began to sound the hour she let out the first scream.”
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
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All Men are Mortal (1946)
Context: In horror, in terror, she accepted the metamorphosis — gnat, foam, ant, until death. And it's only the beginning, she thought. She stood motionless, as if it were possible to play tricks with time, possible to stop it from following its course. But her hands stiffened against her quivering lips.
When the bells began to sound the hour she let out the first scream.
“Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.”
Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka
Source: もののけ姫 [Mononoke hime]
“If you watch the wolf too hard, a mouse will bite you on the ankle”
Robert Jordan book The Eye of the World
Source: The Eye of the World
