Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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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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A tongue is very like a gun, which is why they nearly rhyme. Both can be fired to devastating effect, for good or evil, and both can explode in your hands, wounding your comrades instead of your enemies.
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Al kept it coming and nobody asked how and his only rule was: share. Be warm, be innocent, open your everything, speak easy. Share
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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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Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.
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It is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation
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Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.
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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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I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.
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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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I have survived, but I have not been spared.
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I abandoned her. It's the one capital crime of fatherhood. Mothers can fail a thousand different ways. A father's only job is: do not abandon this child.
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Most folk have three faces - the face they get when they're children, the face they own when they're grown, and the face they've earned when they're old.
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Eternity takes forever.
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There are no tigers for us, just a city, waiting, and it loves us, in whatever ways a city can love.
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And indeed, as night drew on the sky like a bodice, lacing it with the last beams of sunlight
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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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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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 body does the living; the shadow does the dreaming.
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Cocky don't say anything and that's as good as love right about now.
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When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.