Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Flowers are always more serious than they appear.
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One is always homesick for places where one came to grief.
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Did everything that had magic have teeth?
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September shut her eyes several times and opened them again, just to be sure, just to be certain she was back in Fairyland, that she wasn’t simply knocked silly by her fall.
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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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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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I have survived, but I have not been spared.
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No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
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People are clocks who think they wind themselves.
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We think . . . that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But we are not girls, and so can be almost certain that we know nothing about the matter.
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Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.
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You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at last, the one that ends in joy.
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Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life!
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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
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He'll burn you down like wax if you let him. You'll think it's love, while he dines on your heart. And maybe it will be. But he's so hungry, he'll eat you all in one sitting, and you'll be in his belly, and what will you do then?
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I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too.
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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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Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
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People are mostly happiest when they think they're just about to get the thing they want most. Before and after, they're all monsters.
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Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!
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Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater.
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Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?
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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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When you can change something just by saying a word, that is magic.