Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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But soon the wine sack was empty, and sleep brushed my ears with her ash-lips.
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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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It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.
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Love me, and I will laugh for you, and if you can make me laugh, my laughter will, quite simply, ransom the whole of the world from death.
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Funniest thing about love, how it shakes loose when no one's looking. How the dark helps it along. Maybe that's why we dug caves so much, way back when.
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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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We are a Body of contradiction, flesh-full and fleshless.
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The war is always going badly.
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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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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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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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Forests have secrets,' he said gently. 'It's practically what they're for. To hide things. To separate one world from another.
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No one’s good just from being born any place
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I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.
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It is not so easy to always remember who you are.
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The grass and the rivers and the stones and women and horses and more Stars and men and clouds and birds and trees came dancing through the afterbirth of the Mare
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Morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.
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Things that cannot long be kept secret: death in the family, the loss of a ring, corruption of the spirit, boredom, illicit love. Sickness. Addiction. Pregnancy.
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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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Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.
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[...] She started disappearing as soon as she was born. Just to get away from you.
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A body needs a good memento mori to flush out the humors.
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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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Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.