Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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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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All things are strange which are worth knowing.
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Honesty is such a nasty habit, dear. Like biting your nails.
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Histories are instruments of oppression.
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Remember, pain is not a test. Knowledge is not enough.
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Monsters, you know, cannot appreciate the niceties of commandments carved in stone.
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Girls laugh. Their hair giggles down their back.
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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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… That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. …
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When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.
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Death hath no dominion.
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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 have survived, but I have not been spared.
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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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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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What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.
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The body does the living; the shadow does the dreaming.
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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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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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Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.
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You can’t kiss a girl into anything.
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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