Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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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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He'll burn you down like wax if you let him. You'll think it's love, while he dines on your heart. And maybe it will be. But he's so hungry, he'll eat you all in one sitting, and you'll be in his belly, and what will you do then?
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Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.
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Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
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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.
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The war is always going badly.
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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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Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.
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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
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They want only their private toys and candies, and will not share.
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Forests have secrets,' he said gently. 'It's practically what they're for. To hide things. To separate one world from another.
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Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening.
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But the longer I’m dead, the more I think the universe is a big blackboard with rules scrawled all over it in chalk and stardust and it’s just that the damn thing is flipped over and turned away from us so we can’t see anything but the erase, which death, hitting the floor.
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Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.
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Did everything that had magic have teeth?
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The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril.
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I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.
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It is not so easy to always remember who you are.
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Mary's smile is a spotlight - whomever it lands upon becomes brighter, becomes more real. It lands upon us.
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I chose you," he said simply. "All of the fish of me turned toward you at once.
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We’ve made too many movies, you and I. Or too few. Always too few. Too many to have any meaning, too few to say what we meant.
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“I can never remember my dreams," said the shadow of the Marquess quietly. "You must have had rich, tasty ones then. When you can't remember a dream, it's because a Baku ate it.
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A dragon looks like a girl when it is young.