Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself.
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Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.
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Time is no one's friend - time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.
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SF raised me, and I think it did a damn fine job. It at least removed a lot of potential sources of anxiety.
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Except that her joints ached and her head hurt and it tasted like a vorcha had shit in her mouth.
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I don't know why you would even bring up the Internet. The xeno-intelligence officer responsible for evaluating your digital communication required invasive emergency therapy after an hour's exposure.
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A girl who never smiles has such power - what men will do to turn up but one corner of her mouth! She already wears her red war-gown and her circlet of cinnabar poppies. They bring out the color in her grimace.
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Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.
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Mug your destiny in an alley and punch it until it gives you what you want
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“Am I truly such a villain? Is it really a cage if it’s the size of the world?” “Yes,” said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.
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He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.
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Being the oldest sometimes meant being everyone's boss, but mostly, it meant being everyone's pack mule.
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Conservatism is not an attractive trait.
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You will live as you live in any world,' Madame Lebedeva said. She reached out her hand as if to grasp Marya's, as if to press it to her cheek, then closed her fingers, as if Marya's hand were in hers. 'With difficulty, and grief.
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Magic has a logic, like algebra. Once you get to know it, it's easy. If this, then that. You write with a pencil, you don't make frog soup with it.
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There are many sorts of lies. You could fill a shop with them. To be sure, lies are terribly common.
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He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junk blossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle through thorny vines, veins of clotted pink juice.
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I suppose if you have ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child really.
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A father is nowhere near as valuable as a spoon.
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Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.
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It calmed him to collect the things he knew and did not speak of.
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Don't you know how far women stretch?
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I think this is very strange - All things are strange which are worth knowing (...).
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I am certainly intrepid and splendid and sordid and strong; I can see why you'd want me! But I'm afraid I've left the kettle on or whatever it is people say when they're bored.