Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
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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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She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.
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Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.
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A stepmother is like a bullet you can't dig out. She fires true and she fires hot and she fires so quick that her metal hits your body before you even know there's a fight on.
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Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.
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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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It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.
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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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She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her, slowly, but getting stronger.
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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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But I’ve brought you to the snow, and the snow is the beginning and the end of everything, everyone knows that.
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Be nice to Fairyland. She is old and tender of heart and when her feelings are hurt, she cries volcanoes.
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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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He does everything a Marshal does but twice as hard, twice as dirty, and without the soft and cushioning arms of the government to wipe his tears.
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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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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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The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces - those, I think, are the sensations of grief.
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It tasted like a shade of white near blue; it tasted like the idea of pearls; it tasted like a memory nearly grasped but lost at the last moment.
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I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies – and those bodies were so dear to me!
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You are a Witch. I am a Prince. In all the books, where there is a Witch and a Prince there is a way.
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The nearness of him crushed her, like being held by the sun.
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I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.