Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.
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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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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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People who share a secret share a heart.
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Snow White swallows that like a sword. She lets the hammer click back into place. Everything in her that's not nailed down is shaking loose.
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Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles - and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.
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Opium ain’t got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow
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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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Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.
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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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A ring don’t make a bride, that’s all.
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Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.
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She is dead. Almost certainly dead. Nearly conclusively dead. She is, at the very least, not answering her telephone.
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Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
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Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.
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Bran felt terribly sorry for his sisters, but it was hardly his fault that the world was so determined to make girls suffer a great deal more than boys. He hadn’t built the world. It had nothing to do with him.
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Did everything that had magic have teeth?
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But I am a sly and wicked narrator. If there is a secret to be plumbed for your benefit, Dear Reader, I shall strap on a head-lamp and a pick-ax and have at it.
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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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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 look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".
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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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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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That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no.