Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?
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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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... 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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It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.
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All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
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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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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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Just because it's imaginary doesn't mean it isn't real.
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Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles - and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.
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She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.
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The Glasshobs built it to keep an eye on the stars, who have a tendency to run off on adventures and forget about how much we down-below folks need to navigate and cast horoscopes and meet lovers on balconies.
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She is dead. Almost certainly dead. Nearly conclusively dead. She is, at the very least, not answering her telephone.
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Mary's smile is a spotlight - whomever it lands upon becomes brighter, becomes more real. It lands upon us.
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Your past’s a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in a box where it can’t hurt anyone.
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You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.
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War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.
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A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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You can't fix a bad man like a bad staircase.
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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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If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
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Patience is always the last ingredient in any spell, the last part in any machine, what ever your original blue prints say.
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But we had young turnips and mustard greens in our befuddled stomach that day, and these things make bravery.
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Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.