Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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. . .building is medicine for free.
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What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.
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Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.
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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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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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That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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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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"We like the wrong sort of girls", they wrote. "They are usually the ones worth writing about.
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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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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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A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.
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Histories are instruments of oppression.
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A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
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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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No one’s good just from being born any place
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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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In his own country, Death can be kind.
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And Miss Oleander Coy had herself a blue mouth. Little stains at the edges of her raspberry lips where she put her pen when she was thinking, which was always.
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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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What is a map, but a thing that gets you where you're going? -Mr. Map
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Cocky don't say anything and that's as good as love right about now.
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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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We’ve made too many movies, you and I. Or too few. Always too few. Too many to have any meaning, too few to say what we meant.
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But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.