Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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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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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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War must always be done out of sight, or it shocks people and they stop immediately.
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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
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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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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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[...] She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.
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We are a Body of contradiction, flesh-full and fleshless.
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You can be innocent again. It's not true, what they say, that you can never get it back. You can. It's only that most folk cannot be bothered.
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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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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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I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.
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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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Bad luck relies absolutely on perfect timing
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You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.
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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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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
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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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A mother's like a poison made for only one soul.
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It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
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This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.
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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.