"She knew herself, how she had slowly, over……" — Catherynne M. Valente
"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 her girlhood like death."
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237 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
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