Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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.
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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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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
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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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You can’t kiss a girl into anything.
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You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.
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Death hath no dominion.
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Girls laugh. Their hair giggles down their back.
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A thing too familiar becomes invisible.
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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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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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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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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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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
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Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.
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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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Eternity takes forever.
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The body does the living; the shadow does the dreaming.
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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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Magic is just a word for what’s left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
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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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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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Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.
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"All money is imaginary," answered the Calcatrix simply. "Money is magic everyone agrees to pretend is not magic.