Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.
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But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.
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In his own country, Death can be kind.
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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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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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A tongue is very like a gun, which is why they nearly rhyme. Both can be fired to devastating effect, for good or evil, and both can explode in your hands, wounding your comrades instead of your enemies.
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It's a secret and if you tell a secret the secret comes alive and can never be kept safe at home again.
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Luck is a finite and rare substance in the universe, like palladium or cobalt. To use it, you have to take it from somebody else.
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But a person’s smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.
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The Heart of Fairyland is a story
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You have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.
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It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
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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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There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.
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Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing.
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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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Heroes in motion tend to stay in motion, but villains in motion tend toward mass destruction.
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But something older and wiser within her said, Some things are for hiding and for keeping.
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So much light, sweet girl, begins in the dark.
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Most people don’t like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.
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It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
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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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What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.
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Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.