Catherynne M. Valente, Six-Gun Snow White Quotes

The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.

Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.

A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history.

I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.

I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston.

Let me tell you something, kid, " said Mrs. H of Boston and Beacon Hill. "Magic is just a word for what's left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.