Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.
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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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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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She’s an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris.
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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.
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In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
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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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They want only their private toys and candies, and will not share.
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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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After so long keeping to herself and tending her secret quietly, all these words just bubbled up out of her her like cool golden champagne.
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Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one’s own code.
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I know real dirt looks nothing like this. Nothing like soft blood flecked with black bone.
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"I do believe everyone in Fairyland-Below is royalty!" September exclaimed. "Queens and Princes and Vicereines and Emperors - it's like visiting Europe!
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Everything in creation is just a trick of the light - the only difference between heaven and hell is who's running those lights, who's got the switch, who knows the cues.
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... for my eeries, anything. Anything, forever, always.
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But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be plumped up again - after all, it was only a bit thirsty for something to do.
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And indeed, as night drew on the sky like a bodice, lacing it with the last beams of sunlight
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Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.
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And the heart of Ivan Nikolayevich broke inside the body of Marya Morevna, and the pieces of him lodged deep in her bones, and through the window, the stars watched.
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Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?
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If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
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People who share a secret share a heart.
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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.