Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Things that cannot long be kept secret: death in the family, the loss of a ring, corruption of the spirit, boredom, illicit love. Sickness. Addiction. Pregnancy.
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"The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.
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The hinterlands. Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.
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No one is a cup for another to drink from
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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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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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Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.
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She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.
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After love, no one is what they were before.
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One is always homesick for places where one came to grief.
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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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You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men - and exceedingly stupid men, usually - do.
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"Remember this when you are queen," she breathed. "I told you my secrets."
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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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Woman! Come out! I have - " She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.
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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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It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
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It was on the to-do list, but you know to-do lists. They get longer and longer until you might as well just carve the last items on your tombstone. Do the dishes.
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Hounds and hearthstones, girl, haven't you ever heard a story about Koschei? He's only got the one. Act one, Scene one: pretty girl. Act one, Scene two: pretty girl gone!
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That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing.
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It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
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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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In the beginning there was Dust, and in the end there will be Dust, and in the middle there is Dust, Dust, Dust!