Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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In the beginning there was Dust, and in the end there will be Dust, and in the middle there is Dust, Dust, Dust!
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I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.
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No one’s good just from being born any place
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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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If you have ever seen a falling star, you have seen a Changeling arriving.
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Cocky don't say anything and that's as good as love right about now.
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After love, no one is what they were before.
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Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
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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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“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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Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays.
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Greta, Greta, he whispered, eyes shut in rapture, on thy breast I write my Edda, at thy feet I lay the keys of Niflheim, by thy leave alone, I live, and breathe, and die.
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The Marsh King raised himself up and ushered me out the door with the air of a host who has just realized he is one guest away from a comfortable nap.
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What is a map, but a thing that gets you where you're going? -Mr. Map
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I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.
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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.
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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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Never assume that a woman is wicked simply because she is ugly and behaves unfavorably towards you. It is unbecoming behavior for a Prince.
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...the beginning is where the end gets born.
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Horses, in secret, love hats more than any other creature. It is a horse’s tragedy that they can never properly wear one.
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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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Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.
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In his own country, Death can be kind.