Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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Love is the Turing test, [...] It is how we check for life.
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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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You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
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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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Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
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Most folk have three faces - the face they get when they're children, the face they own when they're grown, and the face they've earned when they're old.
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Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!
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Lebedeva snapped her fingers. “It’s like lying!” she exclaimed. “Well, we understand that, of course! The bigger the lie, the happier the liar.”
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Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.
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All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.
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A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history.
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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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After love, no one is what they were before.
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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
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But something older and wiser within her said, Some things are for hiding and for keeping.
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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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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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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It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
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We who were once living can guard you still, and love you, and keep you living safe and whole. Nothing ever truly dies.
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She did not want Fairyland to be full of older girls who wanted to be stars.
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The kind of smile that has kept a froggy, dark sort of surprise in its back pocket, and won’t spoil it too soon.