Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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Magic is just a word for what’s left to the powerless once everyone else has eaten their fill.
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I love you, and I am your wife, and I forgive you of all the sins of this world, all the sins we invented just to commit within our cave. I love you ... In a world without end. I love you.
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I have survived, but I have not been spared.
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So much light, sweet girl, begins in the dark.
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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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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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The Heart of Fairyland is a story
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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.
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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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Death hath no dominion.
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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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And indeed, as night drew on the sky like a bodice, lacing it with the last beams of sunlight
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Eternity takes forever.
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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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… That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. …
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Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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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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The body does the living; the shadow does the dreaming.
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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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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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Cocky don't say anything and that's as good as love right about now.
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Punishment doesn't mean you aren't loved. On the contrary. You can only punish someone you love.