Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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Falling in love is embarrassing. It is not hardcore. It is not part of the scene.
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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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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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Doors opened at seven, the show started at eight. In pubs and clubs and house parties across the galaxy, the viewers at home were drunk by six.
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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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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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... 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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A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it.
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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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September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.
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War must always be done out of sight, or it shocks people and they stop immediately.
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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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Just because it's imaginary doesn't mean it isn't real.
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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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Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions
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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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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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It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.
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I chose you," he said simply. "All of the fish of me turned toward you at once.
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In my experience, folk find it nigh on impossible to call a thing what it is.
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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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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.