Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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The war is always going badly.
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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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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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A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
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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 hinterlands. Where the criminals and the carnivals and the concatenating counterfeiters of no morals to speak of make a home.
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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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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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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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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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Things I Will Try to Say More Often: Why? I love you. I’m sorry. May I have chocolate? Yes. yes. yes.
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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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It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.
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Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing.
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Forests have secrets,' he said gently. 'It's practically what they're for. To hide things. To separate one world from another.
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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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Most people don’t like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.
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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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He ran like if he kept running he could escape the last thousand years.
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How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times!
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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
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I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.
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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.