When she opened her eyes they were confronted by a musical box against the opposite wall - one of those early Bavarian toys where mechanical figures perform to the tune.
'How odd,' she thought. The little stage showed a group of fiddlers, two couples in costumes like those of the ball she had just quitted, and in a doorway at the side, a gypsy or beggar man.
Very faintly the distant waltz came to her ears, but no footsteps ringing in the abandoned halls.
With her hand pressed to her unsteady heart, acting under a sudden compulsion, she pushed down the lever. Delicate plucked music started up; the fiddlers sawed with their clumsy arms in time to an ethereal waltz. The couples moved jerkily out and each raised an arm to clasp its partner. To various clicks and rumbles from under the floor they began to revolve with each other and to orbit round the room. Their movements were sinister because of being both reluctant and predestined. Here they were and this is was what they must do. ("Many Coloured Glass")
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With hardly any effort at all, she made me feel special. Just like all the other people she toyed with.
Neal ShustermanTags: emotion manipulation special toy
The heart of a man is a small thing but it desires great matters. It is not big enough for a dog’s dinner but the whole world is not big enough for it. Man spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing. From the lamb he tears its guts and makes his harp resound; from the wolf his most deadly tooth to polish his pretty works of art; from the elephant his tusks to make a toy for his child.(...)And who will exterminate him who exterminates all others?
Paul HoffmanTags: life art man men world people evil death heart story child true kill desire game tomas clothes paul last cruel divine great left hand matters cale toy hoffman amuse bosco derfend exterminate instruct spare
I've done tangos with men who thought my ass was a squeaky toy.
Seanan McGuireTags: humor dancing funny toy tango
Haruhi: Whaddaya think I am?!
The Twins: To us? Why that's obvious-- a toy!
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To live for the hope of something isn’t really living at all, and so, like a child putting away its toys and picking up a tool, he marched to Lyca’s bathroom, to shower off the stench of failure, soap up the death of hope, then wash away the ashes of his love for Daphne.
Mark A. RaynerTags: love death hope live living child lust failure live-life fail lovers hopeless hopelessness ash shower living-life tools wash hopes crush ashes toys puppy-love tool showers toy stench luv wash-away
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