Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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There is no better teacher of rough necessity than bad luck, and you will have great use of me, I promise.
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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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Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.
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When the world loses its fucking mind and turns on you like a stupid feral cat you thought was tame, it happens. Everyone does the long, woozy whistle, and keel over.
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What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.
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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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. . .building is medicine for free.
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A ring don’t make a bride, that’s all.
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Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater.
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In the space of one heartbeat to another I loved you and I was lost to you
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You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.
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He's not a lad that likes to stand on his feet.
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...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
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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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I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too.
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Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.
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Horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse’s tragedy that they can never properly wear one.
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The nearness of him crushed her, like being held by the sun.
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No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
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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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"I do believe everyone in Fairyland-Below is royalty!" September exclaimed. "Queens and Princes and Vicereines and Emperors - it's like visiting Europe!
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People who share a secret share a heart.
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September shut her eyes several times and opened them again, just to be sure, just to be certain she was back in Fairyland, that she wasn’t simply knocked silly by her fall.
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People are mostly happiest when they think they're just about to get the thing they want most. Before and after, they're all monsters.