Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.
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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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I don't know why you would even bring up the Internet. The xeno-intelligence officer responsible for evaluating your digital communication required invasive emergency therapy after an hour's exposure.
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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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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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I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.
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It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.
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Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.
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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 honey, everybody eats art and drinks stories. It's the best drunk there is!
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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 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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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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But Fairyland is an old place, and old things have strange hungers.
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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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“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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They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness
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The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.
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Time is communal, Marya Morevna, the most purely communal of all commodities. It belongs to us all equally.
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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.
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She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.