Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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The world had gotten gritty enough. The only thing left to do in all that dirt was to shine.
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Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
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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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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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In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.
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In his own country, Death can be kind.
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I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.
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So I talk to the dead. They're the only ones who can see the whole story. All they've got is story.
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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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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
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That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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It is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation
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Heroes in motion tend to stay in motion, but villains in motion tend toward mass destruction.
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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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Remember, pain is not a test. Knowledge is not enough.
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Everything living has a mouth. Mouths bite and swallow; they talk; they taste. They kiss. A mouth is the main tool for living.
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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
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Girls laugh. Their hair giggles down their back.
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I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.
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I have survived, but I have not been spared.
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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'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow. Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.
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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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… That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. …