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Girl Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who…
- Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above…
- Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings. They must sweep…
- Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.
- But this is a story, and in a story there is always someone beautiful enough." - 'The Girl with Two Skins' from A Guide to…
- The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
- Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in…
- But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women…
- Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty pinprick of a…
- We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
- She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out…
- September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if…
- Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing…
- A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
- Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am…
- Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. ”I have come for the girl in the window,”…
- I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good…
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- Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming… — Jane Austen
- I was in preschool and a girl actually kissed me on the cheek. I didn't know what to do. I didn't know… — Jensen Ackles
- I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the… — Jensen Ackles
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- I'm into a casual-dressing girl: blue jeans and a tank top is super sexy. But the sexiest thing on a girl -… — Jensen Ackles