Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
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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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When you don’t need anything anymore, the only thing you need is stories, and songs, and beauty, and spectacle. That’s the good stuff. The stuff that reminds us who we are.
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A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
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Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit.
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When you’ve lost your girl, it doesn’t much matter where you live. Everywhere is just The Place She Isn’t, and that’s the front and back of it.
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
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What is a map, but a thing that gets you where you're going? -Mr. Map
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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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Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.
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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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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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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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Histories are instruments of oppression.
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Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.
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The point's not what it costs; it's what it costs you. Everything you have. That's my price, that's my prize, that's my ransom, and that's my rune. The only price in the world that matters is the one that hurts to pay.
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If you have ever seen a falling star, you have seen a Changeling arriving.
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You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.
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I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.
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I love you, and I am your wife, and I forgive you of all the sins of this world, all the sins we invented just to commit within our cave. I love you ... In a world without end. I love you.
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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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...snow is the beginning and the end of everything...
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How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times!