Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.
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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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...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
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Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.
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She didn't like to say things flatly, but sometimes it is the perfect antidote to someone trying to convince you the noose in their hand is a lovely silk ribbon for your hair.
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There is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other.
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A map shows maybes.
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Though any species on any dumb gobworld may develop sentience (the poor bastards), no government ever does’?
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And when funny things happen, you just have to go along, don't you? Because they might never happen again and you'll have missed the joke of it, missed the fun, and then when you're old and your kittens ask you what you did when the world had its glad rags on, you won't have nothing to say, will you?
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It is such a hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, bt the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.
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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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What’s the difference between being dead and having a boyfriend? Death sticks around.
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Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.
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Who am i, really? What does any of it mean? i'm so afraid someday everyone will see that i'm just an imposter, a fake, among all the real and gorgeous godheads.
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And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.
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Time is no one's friend - time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.
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You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it - to see the Queerness that moves in every bit
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My heart yields dividends unseen; thou art my soul's annuity.
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You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.
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Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.
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Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.
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He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.
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They were all whispers now, the two of them, conspirators and thieves.
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That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.