“The architecture of the Minotaur’s heart is ancient. Rough hewn and many chambered, his heart is a plodding laborious thing, built for churning through the millennia. But the blood it pumps—the blood it has pumped for five thousand years, the blood it will pump for the rest of his life—is nearly human blood. It carries with it, through his monster’s veins, the weighty, necessary, terrible stuff of human existence: fear, wonder, hope, wickedness, love. But in the Minotaur’s world it is far easier to kill and devour seven virgins year after year, their rattling bones rising at his feet like a sea of cracked ice, than to accept tenderness and return it.” BloodMythologyMonstersTendernessVeinsHeartsMinotaurs Book:The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break Source: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
“Cecie keeps telling him she’d like to take him home some night, husband or no. The Minotaur waits hopefully. Husband or no.” LoveHopeHusbandMythologyMinotaurs Book:The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break Source: The Minotaur Takes a Cigarette Break
“There was talk of the Centaur being moved into the elephant cages to make room for a banjo-picking Minotaur. Surrendering his meager furnishings to a musical half man half bull was all bull.” FunnyCentaurMinotaursBanjo Book:Heebie-Jeebies: Volume One Source: Heebie-Jeebies: Volume One