You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

Catherynne M. Valente

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I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.

Catherynne M. Valente

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Will you beat me if I say no?" he whispered fearfully.

September thought she might cry. "Oh...oh dear. Not all the world is like that. Well. I am not like that.

Catherynne M. Valente

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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.

Catherynne M. Valente

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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 story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.

Catherynne M. Valente

Tags: death

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I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Marya Morevna; I have looked for your face in the patterns of the ice. In the dark, I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold.

Catherynne M. Valente

Tags: love-lost

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