Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.
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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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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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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
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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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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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Magic is just a word for what’s left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
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Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.
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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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Honesty is such a nasty habit, dear. Like biting your nails.
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[...] everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all.
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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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And that’s how you begin to win over a child. People who share a secret share a heart.
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A thing too familiar becomes invisible.
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Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.
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You can’t kiss a girl into anything.
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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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I'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow. Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.
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All things are strange which are worth knowing.
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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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Death hath no dominion.
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The body does the living; the shadow does the dreaming.
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You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won't forget your war either.