Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.
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Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.
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Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.
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Luck is a finite and rare substance in the universe, like palladium or cobalt. To use it, you have to take it from somebody else.
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A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
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She was ... unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies.
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But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.
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You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.
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She'd thought she left feeling helpless behind long ago - only we never leave helpless behind. It is a country in which we all hold passports.
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A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.
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First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.
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I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.
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In his own country, Death can be kind.
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You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty.
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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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Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.
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A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.
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The kind of smile that has kept a froggy, dark sort of surprise in its back pocket, and won’t spoil it too soon.
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Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.
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You have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.
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Opium ain’t got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow
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I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.
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Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.
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...snow is the beginning and the end of everything...