Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.
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People who share a secret share a heart.
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A prophetic world that can never come true.
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I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey. Nothing to brag on, but enough for you, and all your friends, too.
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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
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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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Surely you didn't think deathless meant dickless.
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In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.
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Everything good in the world has feathers and wings and claws.
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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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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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When the world loses its fucking mind and turns on you like a stupid feral cat you thought was tame, it happens. Everyone does the long, woozy whistle, and keel over.
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"The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.
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In the space of one heartbeat to another I loved you and I was lost to you
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A mother's like a poison made for only one soul.
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The hinterlands. Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.
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That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no.
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No one cared who they'd been before, or even who they were now. Sometimes it felt like they lived at the bottom of the world. People at the bottom of the world mind their business, mostly.
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Life outraces memory.
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Old things have strange hungers.
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There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise.
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You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.
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September shut her eyes several times and opened them again, just to be sure, just to be certain she was back in Fairyland, that she wasn’t simply knocked silly by her fall.
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It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.