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Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
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But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.
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...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
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Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
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