Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I’ve no idea what I shall do when I am grown! I don’t suppose there is much call for Knights or Bishops or Heroines in Omaha or even Chicago. And I’m sure other girls are much better at it than I.
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What happens to anything beautiful? Viy ate it up.
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You will live as you live in any world,' Madame Lebedeva said. She reached out her hand as if to grasp Marya's, as if to press it to her cheek, then closed her fingers, as if Marya's hand were in hers. 'With difficulty, and grief.
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And there’s nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of candy. Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Newitz are the kindest ladies you’ll ever meet, and they have nips of whiskey in their tea like cowboys.
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It’s in our blood - we heard their distresses like a rung bell in our bones.
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I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not.
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Being the oldest sometimes meant being everyone's boss, but mostly, it meant being everyone's pack mule.
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Dreams keep the heart alive.
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I want to skip this part. I want to pull on the arm of my slot machine and let the rolls flip over until they show a green tree in the summertime, and me away from that house, walking tall under a blue sky.
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And honey, everybody eats art and drinks stories. It's the best drunk there is!
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That’s the only way to look at things, I always say,” propounded the Duke. “Slantways, sideways, and upside down.”
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It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.
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I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.
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“Oh!" cried the young man. "A little deaf child! How sweet! We should adopt her and teach her to write symphonies. She'll be all the rage in town. I'll buy her a powdered wig and a tricorne!
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Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.
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But Fairyland is an old place, and old things have strange hungers.
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She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.
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I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.
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They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness
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What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
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And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power.
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No good thing can last forever, because people are terrible and we have this feeling, we all have this feeling, that if not for that essential terribleness we could have gotten further by now. Done better. Done more.
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The grass and the rivers and the stones and women and horses and more Stars and men and clouds and birds and trees came dancing through the afterbirth of the Mare
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Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.