Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.
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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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Girls laugh. Their hair giggles down their back.
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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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A body is never so vicious as when it has only itself to blame for its trouble.
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She's an old woman possessed of great powers - but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.
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The body does the living; the shadow does the dreaming.
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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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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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So much light, sweet girl, begins in the dark.
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I love you, and I am your wife, and I forgive you of all the sins of this world, all the sins we invented just to commit within our cave. I love you ... In a world without end. I love you.
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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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But you’ve just never had better coffee than the fair-trade organic late-harvest darkest of dark roasts at a Voorpret espresso bar. And you don’t nuke that sort of thing from orbit. It’s just so hard to find a good cappuccino when you’re traveling.
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Remember, pain is not a test. Knowledge is not enough.
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That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
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A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
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All things are strange which are worth knowing.
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Let us hold hands instead of let us hold kitchens. To say put our heads together and not put our parlors together. But it is not as simple as replacing words anymore. Ravan is gone. My hearth is broken.
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The Heart of Fairyland is a story
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But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.
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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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Death hath no dominion.
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Histories are instruments of oppression.
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Punishment doesn't mean you aren't loved. On the contrary. You can only punish someone you love.