Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.
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Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one’s own code.
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A body needs a good memento mori to flush out the humors.
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Be nice to Fairyland. She is old and tender of heart and when her feelings are hurt, she cries volcanoes.
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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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"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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I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey. Nothing to brag on, but enough for you, and all your friends, too.
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Rich girls aren’t criminals, don’t you know? They’re just troubled, poor things.
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People who share a secret share a heart.
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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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I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.
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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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These words were small and they only meant what they said, not how they felt before he said them. He nearly wept with the frustration of it.
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A stepmother is like a bullet you can't dig out. She fires true and she fires hot and she fires so quick that her metal hits your body before you even know there's a fight on.
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Snow White swallows that like a sword. She lets the hammer click back into place. Everything in her that's not nailed down is shaking loose.
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September felt sure that her shadow and everyone’s shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.
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Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.
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Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.
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They want only their private toys and candies, and will not share.
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You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
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A ring don’t make a bride, that’s all.
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A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
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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.