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Tales Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you…
- All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and…
- She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must be still. I…
- 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…
- However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to…
- Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to…
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- Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster
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- I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt
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- History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities. — Graydon Carter
- All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark. — Helena Bonham Carter
- I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. — Beverly Cleary
- Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale. — Hans Christian Andersen