Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.
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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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That's how it goes - as soon as there's anything interesting in Ancient Greece, some arsehole with a magic hat comes along to murder it.
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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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Can you imagine what it would do to a person, to know that they were standing between three people and that marrow-deep, desperate need?
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A body needs a good memento mori to flush out the humors.
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But in the end, all wars are more or less the same. If you dig down through the layers of caramel corn and peanuts and choking, burning death, you’ll find the prize at the bottom and the prize is a question and the question is this: Which of us are people and which of us are meat?
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Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
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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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If you have ever seen a falling star, you have seen a Changeling arriving.
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I do not want to muddle about with Politicks, and whenever two Folk of any sort are in a room together there are always Politicks to be muddled in.
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A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whether it has been taught to sit up or to lie down, to speak or to beg, to roll over or to sound alarms, to guard or to attack, to find or to stay
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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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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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. . .building is medicine for free.
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I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone you do not make them tell war stories.
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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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It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.
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The dead know how to savor as the living never can.
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Al kept it coming and nobody asked how and his only rule was: share. Be warm, be innocent, open your everything, speak easy. Share
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She is my wife and I am her own and you were not invited. Leave us alone.
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Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater.
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Coffee is a kind of magic you can drink.