Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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This is my heart - carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my tea, and feel it in my shoes.
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She is my wife and I am her own and you were not invited. Leave us alone.
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Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?
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That's just the first part. What others call you, you become. It's a terrible magic that everyone can do - so do it. Call yourself what you wish to become.
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The dead know how to savor as the living never can.
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So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.
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Perhaps, if you take a long enough view, we are all stronger than our goblins.
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A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.
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Al kept it coming and nobody asked how and his only rule was: share. Be warm, be innocent, open your everything, speak easy. Share
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I do not want to muddle about with Politicks, and whenever two Folk of any sort are in a room together there are always Politicks to be muddled in.
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Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.
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You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.
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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
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I’m quite civilized, I promise,’ Manythanks sniffed, smiling. ‘Wairwulves are cultured. We have choirs and charity races and rotary clubs. It’s when we’re human that you must take care.
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When you can change something just by saying a word, that is magic.
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After love, no one is what they were before.
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There's no fun in arguing if you never get shown up. Who plays a game it there's no chance they'll lose? I do so crave to be proven wrong,. It is as sweet as proving yourself right, when done properly.
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“I can never remember my dreams," said the shadow of the Marquess quietly. "You must have had rich, tasty ones then. When you can't remember a dream, it's because a Baku ate it.
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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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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
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Cocky don't say anything and that's as good as love right about now.
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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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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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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.