Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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There is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other.
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Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.
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Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.
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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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What’s the difference between being dead and having a boyfriend? Death sticks around.
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You and I, we're no good at telling a story straight. It won't come off right. Like a dog reciting a sonnet. Impressive, but how much better to let him howl?
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...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
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Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.
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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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Conservatism is not an attractive trait.
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I suppose if you have ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child really.
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He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.
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Except that her joints ached and her head hurt and it tasted like a vorcha had shit in her mouth.
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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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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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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself.
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Mug your destiny in an alley and punch it until it gives you what you want
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SF raised me, and I think it did a damn fine job. It at least removed a lot of potential sources of anxiety.
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And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.
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There are many sorts of lies. You could fill a shop with them. To be sure, lies are terribly common.
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And there’s nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of candy. Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Newitz are the kindest ladies you’ll ever meet, and they have nips of whiskey in their tea like cowboys.
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A map shows maybes.