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Catherynne M. Valente’s perspective on Terrible is distilled into eight concise quotes. This modest collection highlights her poetic style and vivid imagination, providing a quick, enchanting snapshot.

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We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say:…

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I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became…

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It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be…

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I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin…

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Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the…

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All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking…

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A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between…

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Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never…

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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.

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“Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.”

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“The cicada lies in the earth for seventeen years. It is warm and dark there, it is soft and wet. Its little legs curl…

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Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for…

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“September put her hand on the grip of the Rivet Gun. She’d only just gotten it, and she’d promised to take copious notes for…

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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

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“You see, the future is a kind of stew, a soup, a vichyssoise of the present and the past. That's how you get the…

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Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are…

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“There is a place, September, oh, very far from Pandemonium. A place where it is always autumn, where there is always cider and pumpkin…

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“I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.”

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Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are small. You…

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