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never invite a wolf to a tea party is a collection of love poetry and prose (in its many forms) for those who love words and what they can make you fe
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CHARLOTTE
Why am I even talking to you? I feel as though I’m a child playing at a pretend tea-party. Only instead of dolls I have a precariously polite wolf as my guest. I’d rather be the shepherdess. I’ll tend my flock of doubt and fear, losing a lamb or sheep here and there to the wolf or my own neglect.
SEBASTIAN
Let me tell you how to safely handle a wolf who has found his way to your tea-party. Stay at the edge of the garden. Let him sleep by your porcelain cups. He will know you are there - he has your scent and the length of your words to tell him where you are. But you will be too far away for you to be more tempting than his dreams. And so he will sleep and dream of chasing clever rabbits under a sky large enough to shelter his hunger.
- from never invite a wolf to a tea party
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