Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times!
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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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Monsters, you know, cannot appreciate the niceties of commandments carved in stone.
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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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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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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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They were all very young, really, too young for all they had seen, but too old not to have seen it.
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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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A body is never so vicious as when it has only itself to blame for its trouble.
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The only price in the world that matters is the one that hurts to pay.
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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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Ivan said, If only we could eat violin music.
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Punishment doesn't mean you aren't loved. On the contrary. You can only punish someone you love.