Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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She’s an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris.
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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 his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
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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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'All little girls are terrible,' he admitted finally. 'but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat'
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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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We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.
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I’ll put this in words you can understand: humans are hideous, pain-guzzling, pollution-spouting space monsters who might threaten our way of life.
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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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Why should I care about you first kiss,' he said. 'You can kiss anyone you like. But sometimes if you wanted to kiss me, that would be all right, too.
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I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.
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Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.
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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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No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.
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It takes energy for new roads to diverge in new woods, and no energy is spent with complete efficiency, without waste. Where wood has burned, there will be ash. The waste product of the constantly dividing multiverse is a fine, drifting mist of regret, and no wormhole has ever starved.
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I could not say what creeps and whispers through the branches and down the threaded Road, but I hear it, and I am not afraid.
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If she was in a teaching mood she wasn't in a hitting mood. Like sneezing and keeping your eyes open, Mrs. H couldn't do both at once.
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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.
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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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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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What happens to the West happens to Snow White, which is to say they both turn into jokes.
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The Sirens flicked their wings at the wall, inscribing it with their own blue ink: Even in penance is beauty; blessed are all the ocean’s drowned!
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The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces - those, I think, are the sensations of grief.
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In the space of one heartbeat to another I loved you and I was lost to you