Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Everything in creation is just a trick of the light - the only difference between heaven and hell is who's running those lights, who's got the switch, who knows the cues.
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No one’s good just from being born any place
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A body needs a good memento mori to flush out the humors.
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You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!
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Autumn has a hungry heart - September is the beginning of death.
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Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.
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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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I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.
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But a person’s smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.
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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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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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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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What is a map, but a thing that gets you where you're going? -Mr. Map
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Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.
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It is not so easy to always remember who you are.
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You’re not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You’re only playing.
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Mary's smile is a spotlight - whomever it lands upon becomes brighter, becomes more real. It lands upon us.
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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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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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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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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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A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
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When you can change something just by saying a word, that is magic.
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But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.