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Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
Literary Critic
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Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's pritty enough for homesteading but takes no ribbons at the fair. After three dead babies that fellow wanted his money back, pack her up in a box and ship her east to the wife factory.
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... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
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You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
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How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.
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And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.
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You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.
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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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I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.
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The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
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...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
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The man who knelt before her would have sprung from her needles, even down the ghostly flecks of silver in his hair. She had not known before that she wanted all these things, that she preferred dark hair and a slightly cruel expression, that she wishes for tallness, or that a man kneeling might thrill her.
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Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.
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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.
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Husbands lie, Masha. I should know I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.
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