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Story Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- 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…
- I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war…
- 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 old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not…
- He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.
- …everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not…
- I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became of Princesses, as…
- Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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