Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won't forget your war either.
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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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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
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All tamed things are made a bit ridiculous in the process, you know.
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Human contact is a terrible drug. Sometimes, you’ll even take the hit you know is tainted. You can’t stop yourself. The need is too strong.
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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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It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
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Heroes in motion tend to stay in motion, but villains in motion tend toward mass destruction.
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We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident
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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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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived. You, too, must learn to prefer it. After all, when all else is gone, you may still have bitterness in abundance.
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But I’ve brought you to the snow, and the snow is the beginning and the end of everything, everyone knows that.
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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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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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That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.
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There's no fun in arguing if you never get shown up. Who plays a game it there's no chance they'll lose? I do so crave to be proven wrong,. It is as sweet as proving yourself right, when done properly.
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For all that they love to make kings, John’s folk seem to have little interest in the actual business of ruling anything. They like to become, they do not like to be.
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Most people don’t like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.
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All things are strange which are worth knowing.
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But you’ve just never had better coffee than the fair-trade organic late-harvest darkest of dark roasts at a Voorpret espresso bar. And you don’t nuke that sort of thing from orbit. It’s just so hard to find a good cappuccino when you’re traveling.
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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
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Things that begin and end in grief: marriage, harvest, childbirth. Journeys away from home. Journeys toward home. Surgeries. Love. Weeping.
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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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Monsters, you know, cannot appreciate the niceties of commandments carved in stone.