Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Bran felt terribly sorry for his sisters, but it was hardly his fault that the world was so determined to make girls suffer a great deal more than boys. He hadn’t built the world. It had nothing to do with him.
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It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.
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A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whether it has been taught to sit up or to lie down, to speak or to beg, to roll over or to sound alarms, to guard or to attack, to find or to stay
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Mary's smile is a spotlight - whomever it lands upon becomes brighter, becomes more real. It lands upon us.
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Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.
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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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"All money is imaginary," answered the Calcatrix simply. "Money is magic everyone agrees to pretend is not magic.
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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
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They were all very young, really, too young for all they had seen, but too old not to have seen it.
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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
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What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.
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Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions
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Heroes in motion tend to stay in motion, but villains in motion tend toward mass destruction.
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Life outraces memory.
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Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport.
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All tamed things are made a bit ridiculous in the process, you know.
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That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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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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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.
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A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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“Is it really a cage if it’s the size of the world?” “Yes,” said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.
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He ran like if he kept running he could escape the last thousand years.
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I’ve always found chess to be a bit too much like real life to provide much enjoyment as a game.
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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.