Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
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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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Just because it's imaginary doesn't mean it isn't real.
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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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Falling in love is embarrassing. It is not hardcore. It is not part of the scene.
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It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.
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September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.
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Your past’s a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in a box where it can’t hurt anyone.
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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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Draw the world the way you want it. Draw it and it will be.
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She leaned in, and kissed her Marid gently, sweetly. She tried to kiss him the way she’d always thought kisses would be. His lips tasted like the sea.
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Kid, nobody really gets anywhere in this life. Everybody just picks someplace to hunker down and barricade themselves in. Some of us just got better bricks than others.
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Thing is, just because you make a body shiver don’t make it yours.
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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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'All little girls are terrible,' he admitted finally. 'but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat'
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A Sibyl is a door shaped like a girl.
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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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Everything looks like magic when you don’t understand it.
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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.
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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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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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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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We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.
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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.