Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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These words were small and they only meant what they said, not how they felt before he said them. He nearly wept with the frustration of it.
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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
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This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.
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War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.
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It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.
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It is not so easy to always remember who you are.
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No one cared who they'd been before, or even who they were now. Sometimes it felt like they lived at the bottom of the world. People at the bottom of the world mind their business, mostly.
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She did not want Fairyland to be full of older girls who wanted to be stars.
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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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Funniest thing about love, how it shakes loose when no one's looking. How the dark helps it along. Maybe that's why we dug caves so much, way back when.
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Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.
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I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.
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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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Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.
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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
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A mother's like a poison made for only one soul.
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I can't stop," the shark rasped. "If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I'm going, I'll have to keep on. That's living.
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When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start another.
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I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.
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We are a Body of contradiction, flesh-full and fleshless.
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Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
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When you’ve lost your girl, it doesn’t much matter where you live. Everywhere is just The Place She Isn’t, and that’s the front and back of it.
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There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.