Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening.
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Perhaps, if you take a long enough view, we are all stronger than our goblins.
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Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!
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Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything pulses to a beat laid down by the Big Bang. Everything feels the drumline of creation from star to sex to song.
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...the beginning is where the end gets born.
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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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She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.
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People are clocks who think they wind themselves.
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Most folk have three faces - the face they get when they're children, the face they own when they're grown, and the face they've earned when they're old.
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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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I readied myself for the great effort of speaking with the throat-and-belly instead of the mind-and-heart. It is altogether a different skill.
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We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
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Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life!
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A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.
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You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
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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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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
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No one cared who they'd been before, or even who they were now. Sometimes it felt like they lived at the bottom of the world. People at the bottom of the world mind their business, mostly.
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"We like the wrong sort of girls", they wrote. "They are usually the ones worth writing about.
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Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.
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No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
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But soon the wine sack was empty, and sleep brushed my ears with her ash-lips.
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A dragon looks like a girl when it is young.