Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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You’re not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You’re only playing.
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The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril.
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A dragon looks like a girl when it is young.
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You take sides if your smart. Offer up your loyalty cause it's all you've got to trade. Trouble is, most times, when you're looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying. - Radiance
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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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But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
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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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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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"Remember this when you are queen," she breathed. "I told you my secrets."
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I’m quite civilized, I promise,’ Manythanks sniffed, smiling. ‘Wairwulves are cultured. We have choirs and charity races and rotary clubs. It’s when we’re human that you must take care.
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You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!
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'All little girls are terrible,' he admitted finally. 'but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat'
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That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.
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I readied myself for the great effort of speaking with the throat-and-belly instead of the mind-and-heart. It is altogether a different skill.
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Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
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Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.
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Flowers are always more serious than they appear.
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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 believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.
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But a person’s smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.
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And when funny things happen, you just have to go along, don't you? Because they might never happen again and you'll have missed the joke of it, missed the fun, and then when you're old and your kittens ask you what you did when the world had its glad rags on, you won't have nothing to say, will you?
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All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.
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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
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A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.