Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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The opposite of Calypso is apocalypse.
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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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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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Let us say I am something like a witch, and something like a jester, and something like a mother.
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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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“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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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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And honey, everybody eats art and drinks stories. It's the best drunk there is!
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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it is brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.
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Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.
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Dreams keep the heart alive.
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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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Of course she cheated. Don't be silly. Snow White spent half her growing years shuffling cards for no one. She can cut false and she can cut true, but she wasn't going to lose when it counted.
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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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It is good that you ruined your face, because it brought you to me, but also because beautiful women rarely work strong magic.
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However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.
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What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore?
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she is right?
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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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Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.
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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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I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.
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I am sustained by Being Necessary.