Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.
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She was ... unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies.
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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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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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"I do believe everyone in Fairyland-Below is royalty!" September exclaimed. "Queens and Princes and Vicereines and Emperors - it's like visiting Europe!
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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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A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.
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But old women faced certain dangers in Fairyland, such as breaking a hip while riding a wild velocipede, or having everyone do what you say just because you had wrinkles.
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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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I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.
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Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.
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I began my life as a character in my father's films.
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Everything looks like magic when you don’t understand it.
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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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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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You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.
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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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“I will keep it safe for you," Saturday whispered, barely brave enough to say it.
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There a difference between having been coded to present a vast set of standardized responses to certain human facial, vocal, and linguistic states and having evolved to exhibit response B to input A in order to bring about a desired social result?
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Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.
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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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Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.
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I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.
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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.