Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
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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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Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?
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Everything good in the world has feathers and wings and claws.
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She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.
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A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
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Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.
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If you have ever seen a falling star, you have seen a Changeling arriving.
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A Sibyl is a door shaped like a girl.
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But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.
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It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.
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A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.
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One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.
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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
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She'd thought she left feeling helpless behind long ago - only we never leave helpless behind. It is a country in which we all hold passports.
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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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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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That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.
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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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Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
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The dead know how to savor as the living never can.
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I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies – and those bodies were so dear to me!
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You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.