Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?
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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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She did not want Fairyland to be full of older girls who wanted to be stars.
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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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Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
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Heroes in motion tend to stay in motion, but villains in motion tend toward mass destruction.
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Cocky don't say anything and that's as good as love right about now.
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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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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
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… That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. …
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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 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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"All money is imaginary," answered the Calcatrix simply. "Money is magic everyone agrees to pretend is not magic.
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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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The kind of smile that has kept a froggy, dark sort of surprise in its back pocket, and won’t spoil it too soon.
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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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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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What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.
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The thing I hate about being dead is you can’t move on. I was in love with him when I died, so I’ll be in love with him till the sun burns out.
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I have survived, but I have not been spared.
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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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The world had gotten gritty enough. The only thing left to do in all that dirt was to shine.