Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
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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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You can’t kiss a girl into anything.
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Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
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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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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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Girls laugh. Their hair giggles down their back.
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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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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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Honesty is such a nasty habit, dear. Like biting your nails.
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The body does the living; the shadow does the dreaming.
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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.
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Death hath no dominion.
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"All money is imaginary," answered the Calcatrix simply. "Money is magic everyone agrees to pretend is not magic.
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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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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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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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… 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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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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A thing too familiar becomes invisible.
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All things are strange which are worth knowing.