Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
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All things are strange which are worth knowing.
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I’ve always found chess to be a bit too much like real life to provide much enjoyment as a game.
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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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You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.
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You have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.
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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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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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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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You can’t kiss a girl into anything.
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She did not want Fairyland to be full of older girls who wanted to be stars.
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Girls laugh. Their hair giggles down their back.
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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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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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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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Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.
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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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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 thing too familiar becomes invisible.
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The body does the living; the shadow does the dreaming.
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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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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.