Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

I sell Damascus steel, folded and intricate, dug up from the earth, practically useless, desirable only to lovers of the arcane, the beautiful, the old. No

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• I sell Damascus steel, folded and intricate, dug up from the earth, practically useless, desirable only to lovers of the arcane, the beautiful, the old. No

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Lovers
  • Sell
  • Desirable