Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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Rich girls aren’t criminals, don’t you know? They’re just troubled, poor things.
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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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It is not so easy to always remember who you are.
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That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.
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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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Opium ain’t got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow
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The Green Wind frowned into his brambly beard. “All little girls are terrible,” he admitted finally, “but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat."
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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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I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.
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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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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 have not been in Fairyland nearly long enough to start crying, September thought, then bit her tongue savagely.
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Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.
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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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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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All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.
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Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.
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Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
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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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Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.
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It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.
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People who share a secret share a heart.