Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Yet humanity could not conceive. It tried and tried, and called mighty wizards from every corner of its earthly kingdom, but no child came. Many mourned, and said that a child was a terrible idea to begin with, ...
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Dreams keep the heart alive.
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"This is some hard-core, triple-X, keep-it-in-the-back-room-under-a-curtain, Alice in Wonderland action is what this is,” Decibel said with total delight.
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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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Some switches must be flipped, and some children cannot help turning off to on and on to off, just to see what will happen.
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Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.
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She smelled like accounts receivable. She looked like old money.
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They leave when it’s over, exeunt, pursued by a bear with an empty porridge bowl.
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A house, a carriage, a balloon, a ship, a racing stallionocerosupine! Is that a thing? It sounds like it ought to be, so let’s say it is!
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Calpurnia squinted through her goggles and thought to herself, That is a Key. Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.
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I'm gonna be good at something other than marrying, darlings. Besides, I don't want them. I don't even wanna screw them, how am I gonna marry them?
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The opposite of Calypso is apocalypse.
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When the aliens come, there’ll be one queue to fight them and one queue to fuck them, and the second one’ll be longer by light-years.
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Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. “As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor."
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.
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No one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough
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Let us say I am something like a witch, and something like a jester, and something like a mother.
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It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad.
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I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
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"Some who deserve failure do not achieve it,” he sniffed. “Some who deserve nothing are given the world.
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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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...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.
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You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty.