Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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She did not want Fairyland to be full of older girls who wanted to be stars.
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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
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Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life!
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She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
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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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When you can change something just by saying a word, that is 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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Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening.
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You can't fix a bad man like a bad staircase.
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One is always homesick for places where one came to grief.
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She must have cried for some secret amphibian reason. Then her dress caught on fire while they danced, and there was a mess, but that's neither here nor there.
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You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.
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We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
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We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.
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What happens to the West happens to Snow White, which is to say they both turn into jokes.
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It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.
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Can you imagine what it would do to a person, to know that they were standing between three people and that marrow-deep, desperate need?
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Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport.
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He ran like if he kept running he could escape the last thousand years.
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You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.
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There must be a way! I have begun a Quest! Quests do not simply end. You win or you lose; it is not just suddenly over.
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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
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No one is a cup for another to drink from
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What was magical at two in the morning was tawdry and cheap and dangerous to your health at two in the afternoon.