Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.
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A body needs a good memento mori to flush out the humors.
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She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.
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Girls laugh. Their hair giggles down their back.
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A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
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Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.
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Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.
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If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
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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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I chose you," he said simply. "All of the fish of me turned toward you at once.
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I’m quite civilized, I promise,’ Manythanks sniffed, smiling. ‘Wairwulves are cultured. We have choirs and charity races and rotary clubs. It’s when we’re human that you must take care.
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People are clocks who think they wind themselves.
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... for my eeries, anything. Anything, forever, always.
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You can be innocent again. It's not true, what they say, that you can never get it back. You can. It's only that most folk cannot be bothered.
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People who share a secret share a heart.
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A prophetic world that can never come true.
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She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
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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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I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.
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September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.
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I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.
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September shut her eyes several times and opened them again, just to be sure, just to be certain she was back in Fairyland, that she wasn’t simply knocked silly by her fall.
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.