13 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente about Death

  • Author 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.

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    The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.

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    She is dead. Almost certainly dead. Nearly conclusively dead. She is, at the very least, not answering her telephone.

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    And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

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