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Radiance

Book by Catherynne M. Valente · 16 quotes · Catherynne M Valente, Radiance, Life

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“It's only that the answers in most stories are boring because they are supplied by the real world rather than, well, something better. Something more stimulating. Sit down with the Greeks and the Romans, and the boring answers get more interesting. Seasons because a girl and a crocus. Death because a girl and an apple. The moon because a girl keeps driving her daft chariot into the sea. It's all down to girls, one way or another.”

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“She’s just burning up with ambition, but the poor bunny’s got nowhere to put it. I don’t think the Patented Pellam System for Prevailing Over the Perils of Pubescence would be of much help. 1. Stop speaking to your parents 2. Run away from your planet 3. Take off your clothes as often as possible, but only while reciting Shakespeare (and being paid scale) 4. Buy a cat 5. Drink your milk 6. Mug your destiny in an alley and punch it until it gives you what you want”

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“It's just that in detective stories, women are usually dead before the curtain goes up. In fairy tales, they're usually alive. Fairy tales are about survival. That's all they're about. The princess lives to get married in the last act. The detective solves the woman; the knight saves her. And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.”

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