Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Opium ain’t got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow
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Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.
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The Sirens flicked their wings at the wall, inscribing it with their own blue ink: Even in penance is beauty; blessed are all the ocean’s drowned!
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We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.
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Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything pulses to a beat laid down by the Big Bang. Everything feels the drumline of creation from star to sex to song.
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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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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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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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People who share a secret share a heart.
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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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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
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Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.
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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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It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!
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A dragon looks like a girl when it is young.
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I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.
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I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.
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Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.
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It is not so easy to always remember who you are.
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All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.
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Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. “I have come for the girl in the window,” he said, and his eyes filled with tears.
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Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
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No one cared who they'd been before, or even who they were now. Sometimes it felt like they lived at the bottom of the world. People at the bottom of the world mind their business, mostly.
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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.