Marya Morevna Quotes

#1. It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

Catherynne M Valente

#2. After that, Marya Morevna understood that she belonged to her secret and it belonged to her. They had struck a bloody bargain between them. Keep me and obey me, the secret said to her, for I am your husband and I can destroy you.

Catherynne M Valente

#3. It was late spring when Marya Morevna slid her brass key into the lock of the house on Dzerzhinskaya Street, feeling it slide, too, between her own ribs, and open her like a reliquary full of old, nameless bones.

Catherynne M Valente

#4. Why is it safe for you and not for me?" whispered Marya Morevna.
"Because you're still a girl." The vintovnik grinned. "Girls have to obey rules. Chyerti break them.

Catherynne M Valente

#5. Just you wait. Papa Koschei is coming, coming, coming, over the hills on his red horse and he's got bells on his boots and a ring in his poket and he knows your name, Marya Morevna.

Catherynne M Valente

#6. I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Marya Morevna; I have looked for your face in the patterns of the ice. In the dark, I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold.

Catherynne M Valente

#7. What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.

Catherynne M Valente

#8. I'm still a shy person. I've learned to put that aside on certain occasions. I have to. It's part of my job.

Alexis Bledel

#9. But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.

Catherynne M Valente

#10. For me, it's hard to wear a bra the whole entire day if it's got underwire.

Behati Prinsloo

#11. I was never in the business of trying to put my name out there - I was really focused on music and records and being in the studio.

Ariel Rechtshaid

#12. 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

#13. I think a lot of people in America do not understand that the basis of true liberty can't happen without an objective moral standard by which we live our lives.

Mike Huckabee

#14. How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.

Catherynne M Valente

#15. Why did you want me to dress warmly?" she asks. "Are you taking me to a Siberian prison?"
"Nope."
"Abandoned research station in Antarctica?"
"Nope."
"You're taking me to practice for our two-person skeleton race at the Olympics."
"Yes.

Stephanie Perkins

#16. He beat me like he beat the children. Cept he don't never hardly beat them. He say, Celie, git the belt. The children be outside the room peeking through the cracks. It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood. I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how come I know trees fear man.

Alice Walker

#17. There's no room for human rights in a government waiting room.

Stephen Clarke

#18. Yes," he growled, "yes, I will put you there and turn out the light in your eyes and come to stare at you for centuries, to pore over you, because you are mine, my treasure, my hoard, and I cannot keep you and I cannot let you go.

Catherynne M Valente

#19. Friends with benefits, my ass. He's mine.

J.M. Madden