Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Remember
  • You
  • Hungry