"Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye."
- Catherynne M. Valente
"You will live as you live in any world,' Madame Lebedeva said. She reached out her hand as if to grasp Marya's, as if to press it to her cheek, then closed her fingers, as if Marya's hand were in hers..."
"Let us be greedy together; let us hoard. Let us hit each other with birch branches and lock each other in dungeons; let us drink each other's blood in the night and betray each other in the sun. Let u..."
"Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it."
"I have survived, but I have not been spared."