ginnyv:

books read 2k17. deathless by catherynne m. valente

that’s how you get deathless, volchitsa. walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you’d have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.