Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.
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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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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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All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.
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They want only their private toys and candies, and will not share.
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Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
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A body needs a good memento mori to flush out the humors.
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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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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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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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She'd thought she left feeling helpless behind long ago - only we never leave helpless behind. It is a country in which we all hold passports.
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The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
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Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening.
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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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All children are required to attend School, which is like a party to which everyone forgot to bring punch, or hats, or fiddles, and none of the games have good prizes.
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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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But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
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It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!
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It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.
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The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril.
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Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport.
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Coffee is a kind of magic you can drink.
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Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.