Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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So much light, sweet girl, begins in the dark.
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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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The world had gotten gritty enough. The only thing left to do in all that dirt was to shine.
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Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays.
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Autumn has a hungry heart - September is the beginning of death.
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Heroes in motion tend to stay in motion, but villains in motion tend toward mass destruction.
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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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Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.
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The point's not what it costs; it's what it costs you. Everything you have. That's my price, that's my prize, that's my ransom, and that's my rune. The only price in the world that matters is the one that hurts to pay.
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I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.
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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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Most people don’t like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.
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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
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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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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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When you’ve lost your girl, it doesn’t much matter where you live. Everywhere is just The Place She Isn’t, and that’s the front and back of it.
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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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Remember, pain is not a test. Knowledge is not enough.
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Honesty is such a nasty habit, dear. Like biting your nails.
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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
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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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This is how you learn to see: You put together a crew. No one can see a damn thing clearly with only two eyes.
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Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.