Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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So you don’t love him. Why would you look for love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?
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A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.
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Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.
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How else are you supposed to deal with people who like terrible things? Hit them with a shovel till they stop, that’s how.
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.
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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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All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.
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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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She always gave the impression of having accidentally wandered in from a mad scientist’s conference, and felt rather desperate to get back.
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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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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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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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Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
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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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It's easier to use somebody if you can think of them as mute and dumb and made for your pleasure.
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…but she does not know whom she wishes to catch, only that she wishes to catch someone, anyone, to be anchored, to be connected, to not be abandoned.
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So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar.
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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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But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.
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And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.
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I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.
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I belong in the refrigerator. Because the truth is, I'm just food for a superhero. He'll eat up my death and get the energy he needs to become a legend.
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If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.