Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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These words were small and they only meant what they said, not how they felt before he said them. He nearly wept with the frustration of it.
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If you have ever seen a falling star, you have seen a Changeling arriving.
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Falling in love is embarrassing. It is not hardcore. It is not part of the scene.
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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
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All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
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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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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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Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?
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You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.
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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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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 felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
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I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone you do not make them tell war stories.
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Firebirds are such frustating quarry. One minute it's all fiery tail feathers and red talons and the next, nothing but ash and a sore seat.
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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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She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.
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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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That's how it goes - as soon as there's anything interesting in Ancient Greece, some arsehole with a magic hat comes along to murder it.
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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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Everything looks like magic when you don’t understand it.
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If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
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I can't stop," the shark rasped. "If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I'm going, I'll have to keep on. That's living.
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You’re not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You’re only playing.
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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.