Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.
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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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Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
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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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I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.
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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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Oh, come on, you must know ‘Leave It Black.’ I see a black door and I’m extremely satisfied with how it looks?
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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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So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar.
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You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.
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But we had young turnips and mustard greens in our befuddled stomach that day, and these things make bravery.
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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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Just because it's imaginary doesn't mean it isn't real.
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Everything looks like magic when you don’t understand it.
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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 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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In the space of one heartbeat to another I loved you and I was lost to you
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... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
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It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.
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“I will keep it safe for you," Saturday whispered, barely brave enough to say it.
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But I’ve brought you to the snow, and the snow is the beginning and the end of everything, everyone knows that.
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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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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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It is important to announce your intentions at top volume, she thought, or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them.