Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Breaking things heals a great many hurts. This is why children do it so often.
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She was a vengeful goddess and her will was absolute.
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It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.
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Wife sounded like something exciting, something daring, something a bit scoundrelly, like pirate or bandit. And they were bandits, of course.
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A mother's like a poison made for only one soul.
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Sweet as cherries, bright as berries, light of my moony sky.
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Byron kissed her gloved hand as they stepped lightly round one another. He could dance like rivers could run. No one had ever kissed her hand before. Emily felt like she was going to throw up and like she was flying all at once.
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Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.
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September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.
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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 of Fairyland, how it threads through every heart and field, how we are all bound together up in the Weird Well of the World.
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And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.
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War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.
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You're grown - crooked and backbent, but grown - and it's time to stop hanging your heart on your mother.
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You know how questing goes. You can’t explain it to anyone else; it would be like telling them your dreams.
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Decibel Jones sighed and shook his head. Today was fired. Today was well and truly sacked. Today could, in point of fact, fuck all the way off.
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We always dreamed the same dreams, which was like living twice.
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After so long keeping to herself and tending her secret quietly, all these words just bubbled up out of her her like cool golden champagne.
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The Sirens flicked their wings at the wall, inscribing it with their own blue ink: Even in penance is beauty; blessed are all the ocean’s drowned!
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She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.
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She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.
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All hands drowned, except the Red Hound of Mykenos, who bit the sea until it spit him back.
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You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.
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I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.
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You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty.