Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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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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Thing is, just because you make a body shiver don’t make it yours.
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You are a Witch. I am a Prince. In all the books, where there is a Witch and a Prince there is a way.
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Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one’s own code.
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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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Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.
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I could not say what creeps and whispers through the branches and down the threaded Road, but I hear it, and I am not afraid.
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Bad luck relies absolutely on perfect timing
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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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She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her, slowly, but getting stronger.
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Rich girls aren’t criminals, don’t you know? They’re just troubled, poor things.
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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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The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces - those, I think, are the sensations of grief.
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A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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Everything good in the world has feathers and wings and claws.
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She’s an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris.
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Morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.
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I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.
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A prophetic world that can never come true.
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I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey. Nothing to brag on, but enough for you, and all your friends, too.
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Chicago at the time owned a lake the size of a sea, several advertising firms, at least six tribes of marauding criminals, healthy herds of sailors grazing free, the first Ferris wheel in all the world, and more wind than it could care for.
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I know real dirt looks nothing like this. Nothing like soft blood flecked with black bone.
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Accuracy is next to godliness.