Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Autumn has a hungry heart - September is the beginning of death.
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I chose you," he said simply. "All of the fish of me turned toward you at once.
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This is my heart - carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my tea, and feel it in my shoes.
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We’ve made too many movies, you and I. Or too few. Always too few. Too many to have any meaning, too few to say what we meant.
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And when funny things happen, you just have to go along, don't you? Because they might never happen again and you'll have missed the joke of it, missed the fun, and then when you're old and your kittens ask you what you did when the world had its glad rags on, you won't have nothing to say, will you?
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Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
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Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions
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Check your pockets, my chimney-child.
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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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Flowers are always more serious than they appear.
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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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... for my eeries, anything. Anything, forever, always.
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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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When you don’t need anything anymore, the only thing you need is stories, and songs, and beauty, and spectacle. That’s the good stuff. The stuff that reminds us who we are.
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What is a map, but a thing that gets you where you're going? -Mr. Map
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He's not a lad that likes to stand on his feet.
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“I will keep it safe for you," Saturday whispered, barely brave enough to say it.
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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 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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It takes energy for new roads to diverge in new woods, and no energy is spent with complete efficiency, without waste. Where wood has burned, there will be ash. The waste product of the constantly dividing multiverse is a fine, drifting mist of regret, and no wormhole has ever starved.
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Woman! Come out! I have - " She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.
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I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.
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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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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.