Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
"I think I look a little like a pumpkin,” whispered September, secretly delighted. “I’m all green and orange.
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When Bush first got elected, the very first time there was talk of going to war with Iraq, the mainstream media gave his position total credibility. I didn't get it then, and I don't get it now.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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In my dreams and visions, I seemed to see a line, and on the other side of that line were green fields, and lovely flowers, and beautiful white ladies, who stretched out their arms to me over the line, but I couldn't reach them no-how. I always fell before I got to the line.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
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There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
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I don't believe in having spaces in the home that don't get used. We pay so much for square footage that to waste it is criminal.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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Street protests in Saudi Arabia might warm our hearts, but they could easily lead to $250 a barrel oil and a global recession.
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I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
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Feeling passionate about something doesn't mean you have to be angry.
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Put too many one-size-fits-all jackets on Americans and the place explodes.
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Let's make Marco Rubio explain why he thinks oil companies should write our energy policy.
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Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.
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I have had bullets flying at concerts, but I don't want to talk about that.
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The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.
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You've got to keep your eye on the prize and do what you love to do.
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There's a lot of mystery just inherent in the story of 'Descender.' There's sort of a central mystery that runs throughout it.
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Everybody is a hero in their own story if you just look.
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I freelanced for the 'Boston Phoenix.'
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"I think I look a little like a pumpkin,” whispered September, secretly delighted. “I’m all green and orange.
