Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Every cat knows how to keep his owner feeding them: You may scratch and bite ninety-nine times, but the hundredth time, you must leap into a lap and press your nose to their nose. Rules are for dogs.
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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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Mary's smile is a spotlight - whomever it lands upon becomes brighter, becomes more real. It lands upon us.
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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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But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.
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Thing is, just because you make a body shiver don’t make it yours.
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The Glasshobs built it to keep an eye on the stars, who have a tendency to run off on adventures and forget about how much we down-below folks need to navigate and cast horoscopes and meet lovers on balconies.
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She wasn’t angry. You can’t get angry just because the world’s so much bigger than you and you’re stuck in it.
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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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I heard there’s fire in hell, but I’ll bet the devil just hands you a bucket and tells you to get moving, this place ain’t gonna clean itself.
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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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It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.
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We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.
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A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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September felt sure that her shadow and everyone’s shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.
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Love me, and I will laugh for you, and if you can make me laugh, my laughter will, quite simply, ransom the whole of the world from death.
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Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.
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If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.
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September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.
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She’s an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris.
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A mother's like a poison made for only one soul.
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But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.
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It's easier to use somebody if you can think of them as mute and dumb and made for your pleasure.