Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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That's just the first part. What others call you, you become. It's a terrible magic that everyone can do - so do it. Call yourself what you wish to become.
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A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
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A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
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But I’ve brought you to the snow, and the snow is the beginning and the end of everything, everyone knows that.
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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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Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport.
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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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. . .building is medicine for free.
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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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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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But soon the wine sack was empty, and sleep brushed my ears with her ash-lips.
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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
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Did everything that had magic have teeth?
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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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“I will keep it safe for you," Saturday whispered, barely brave enough to say it.
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It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.
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Opium ain’t got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow
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He's not a lad that likes to stand on his feet.
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The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril.
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She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
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September felt sure that her shadow and everyone’s shadows were all part of the same broken thing, and broken things were to be fixed, whatever the cost, especially if you had been the one to break it in the first place.
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Never assume that a woman is wicked simply because she is ugly and behaves unfavorably towards you. It is unbecoming behavior for a Prince.