Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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"The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.
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It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
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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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Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.
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Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.
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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
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Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport.
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A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
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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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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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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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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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But soon the wine sack was empty, and sleep brushed my ears with her ash-lips.
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. . .building is medicine for free.
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A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
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Opium ain’t got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow
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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
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...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
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“I will keep it safe for you," Saturday whispered, barely brave enough to say it.
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"Remember this when you are queen," she breathed. "I told you my secrets."
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Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.
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The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril.