Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.
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Anyway, nobody bothers with real beginnings anymore. We stopped making up stories about the creation of the world ages ago.
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Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel.
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Narrators may go where they please.
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Love rarely waits for permission.
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You ain't no woodstove; you can't just squat in the middle of my house and stew.
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I opened my door and everything they had for me was tainted because the land of Used-to-Be is just full of ghosts starving for your breath.
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Zelda was winter's best dame: pale and dark with a shimmer of Christmas in her eye, a flash of New Year's in her laugh.
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“I am so useful. I am not alone. And neither is he. “It must be nice,” said Aubergine suddenly, “to have a friend like that, and like things so much.” Yes.
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Lawlessness doesn’t mean there’s no law, you know, it just means that there are a lot of different laws slugging it out in the streets, and none of them have come out on top yet.
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Family is a transitive property.
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We Queerfolk are big-picture types. You have to be, to see how the Queerness of the World works itself through everything.
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So my name is Scout. Yeah, my mom read To Kill a Mockingbird. Leave it to her to think 5th grade required reading is totally deep.
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All witches must keep up a certain level of deviance in their personal lives, or we should be expelled from the union.
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Omaha is no place for anybody.
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Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup.
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Shadow Physicks are fearfully complicated. A. Amblygonite has no idea.
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Goblins are well-rounded, though you’d never think it from the dastard tales folk tell of us. For example, I enjoy stamp collecting as well as haggling.
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It's not so bad, my darling. Being dead. It's like being alive, only colder.
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Maybe [Snow White] never wakes up. More likely than anything else, really. You can’t kiss a girl into anything.
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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.
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You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.
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Bad things happen to bad people. Bad things happen to good people. Bad things happen to okay people. Bad things happen to everyone.
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Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.