Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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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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“Am I truly such a villain? Is it really a cage if it’s the size of the world?” “Yes,” said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.
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It’s in our blood - we heard their distresses like a rung bell in our bones.
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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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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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What happens to anything beautiful? Viy ate it up.
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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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I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.
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And honey, everybody eats art and drinks stories. It's the best drunk there is!
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It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.
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But Fairyland is an old place, and old things have strange hungers.
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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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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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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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Dreams keep the heart alive.
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They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness
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Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.
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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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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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She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.
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Ragtime plinking, glasses clinking, choruses getting sung with only half the lyrics right, giggles bubbling over like a tower of champagne. It's a party, shaking down the dawn.