Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Just because it's imaginary doesn't mean it isn't real.
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Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.
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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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You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.
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Everything looks like magic when you don’t understand it.
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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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Do you understand Christ to be more like an ox (excuse us, three oxen) or more like a door?
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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
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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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She drank like a Czar and sang like a broken squeezebox and danced like the Sugarplum Fairy cutting loose at last
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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.
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He’ll never be good if he can’t choose to be nasty. It’s the choice that makes the good.
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We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.
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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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... 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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Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
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Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. “I have come for the girl in the window,” he said, and his eyes filled with tears.
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We are a Body of contradiction, flesh-full and fleshless.
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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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A mother's like a poison made for only one soul.
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She’s an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris.
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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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Bad luck relies absolutely on perfect timing
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It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.