Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.
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Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That's what death is for. That's why they keep telling this story. It's the only story.
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A mother's like a poison made for only one soul.
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Be nice to Fairyland. She is old and tender of heart and when her feelings are hurt, she cries volcanoes.
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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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Wouldn't you like to have comrades?' But she would not like that. She wanted only to rest and to read her old, rain-swollen books, turning the pages carefully, so carefully.
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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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Bad luck relies absolutely on perfect timing
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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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Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.
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In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.
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And the heart of Ivan Nikolayevich broke inside the body of Marya Morevna, and the pieces of him lodged deep in her bones, and through the window, the stars watched.
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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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You take sides if your smart. Offer up your loyalty cause it's all you've got to trade. Trouble is, most times, when you're looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying. - Radiance
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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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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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That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.
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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
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I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.
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She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
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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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If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
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Decibel Jones sighed and shook his head. Today was fired. Today was well and truly sacked. Today could, in point of fact, fuck all the way off.
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Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.