Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
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I thought that for a long while, but you chose me, and then you chose him, and choosing is hard - one choice is never the end of the story.
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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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Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.
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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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I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.
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And the heart of Ivan Nikolayevich broke inside the body of Marya Morevna, and the pieces of him lodged deep in her bones, and through the window, the stars watched.
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Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening.
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A ring don’t make a bride, that’s all.
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Coffee is a kind of magic you can drink.
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They want only their private toys and candies, and will not share.
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A body needs a good memento mori to flush out the humors.
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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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The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril.
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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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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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Surely you didn't think deathless meant dickless.
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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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It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!
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All tamed things are made a bit ridiculous in the process, you know.
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First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.
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I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone you do not make them tell war stories.
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I do not want to muddle about with Politicks, and whenever two Folk of any sort are in a room together there are always Politicks to be muddled in.