Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.
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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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Conservatism is not an attractive trait.
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Mug your destiny in an alley and punch it until it gives you what you want
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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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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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There are many sorts of lies. You could fill a shop with them. To be sure, lies are terribly common.
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself.
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The day of the worst thing in the world was long and hot and bright, packed so full of summer autumn seeped out through the stitches.
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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 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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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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I think this is very strange - All things are strange which are worth knowing (...).
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Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.
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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.
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Don't you know how far women stretch?
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“First Law of Heroics.” The Monaciello grinned up at a confused September. “Someone has to tell you it’s impossible, or the Quest can’t go on."
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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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Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.
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I’ve no idea what I shall do when I am grown! I don’t suppose there is much call for Knights or Bishops or Heroines in Omaha or even Chicago. And I’m sure other girls are much better at it than I.
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It calmed him to collect the things he knew and did not speak of.
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A good, solid, beefy lie is too heavy to stand on its own. It needs smaller, quicker, more complicated lies to hold it up.
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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.