Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
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You are not the chosen one, September. Fairyland did not choose you – you chose yourself.
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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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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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A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in 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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It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
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"You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".
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It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.
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People are mostly happiest when they think they're just about to get the thing they want most. Before and after, they're all monsters.
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Flowers are always more serious than they appear.
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A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whether it has been taught to sit up or to lie down, to speak or to beg, to roll over or to sound alarms, to guard or to attack, to find or to stay
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No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
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Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.
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What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.
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But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.
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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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Endings are rubbish. No such thing. Never has been, never will be. There is only the place where you choose to stop talking. Everything else goes on forever.
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He's not a lad that likes to stand on his feet.
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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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He’ll never be good if he can’t choose to be nasty. It’s the choice that makes the good.