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“My good mood felt like an endangered species.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“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 vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“Even when I was happy, I felt like I was always looking for the edges on life. The seams. I was so perfectly born to die.”
― Maggie Stiefvater, Sinner

“What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless