Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.
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She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.
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You can't blame a book for its story.
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His parties have room for all. Come on in. Nobody to look at you funny in here. Nobody to tell you not to have that drink, kiss that fella, smash that chair, light that chandelier on fire. Do it all. Do it all forever.
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You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.
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The best way to be the kind of girl you want to be is to do what that girl would do.
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She leaned in, and kissed her Marid gently, sweetly. She tried to kiss him the way she’d always thought kisses would be. His lips tasted like the sea.
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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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September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.
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It’s a funny thing. You go your whole life thinking you’re the protagonist, but really, you’re just backstory.
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Didn't you know? All stepmothers are witches. It is our compensation for remaining forever an intruder in another woman's house.
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She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
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On the other side of the jelly-glass docking hatch they could see, improbably, impossibly, a hyperactive red panda jumping up and down and waving his paws at them.
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We always dreamed the same dreams, which was like living twice.
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Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.
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Perhaps my philosophy is not so sophisticated. It goes: Come inside. I love you. A Whelk's love will grow as big as it's allowed.
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“Brother," he wept, "my heart is being cut in two. I cannot bear it." "Tscha!" said the Tsar of Birds. "Life is like that.”
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It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.
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If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
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I still want to kiss you. To feel the life in you seize on the life in me. Raw and fresh and new.
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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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She was a vengeful goddess and her will was absolute.
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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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Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.