Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

In a city by the sea that was certainly never called anything so bourgeois as St. Petersburg, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• In a city by the sea that was certainly never called anything so bourgeois as St. Petersburg, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • House
  • City
  • Sea