Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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It is not so easy to always remember who you are.
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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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The nearness of him crushed her, like being held by the sun.
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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
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I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.
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Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.
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One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.
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It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.
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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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... for my eeries, anything. Anything, forever, always.
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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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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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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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Everything living has a mouth. Mouths bite and swallow; they talk; they taste. They kiss. A mouth is the main tool for living.
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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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[...] She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.
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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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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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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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There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise.
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All children are required to attend School, which is like a party to which everyone forgot to bring punch, or hats, or fiddles, and none of the games have good prizes.
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That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.
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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.