Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

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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• 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.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
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  • Despair
  • Fairytale