Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.
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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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I am sustained by Being Necessary.
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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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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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Dreams keep the heart alive.
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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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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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What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore?
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The day of the worst thing in the world was long and hot and bright, packed so full of summer autumn seeped out through the stitches.
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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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I look at you, Masha, and it is like drinking cold water. I look at you and it is like my throat being cut.
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We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell?
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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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We have all of us got it jumbled up. You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That is why time is a rotten jokester and no one ought to let him in to dinner.
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At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.
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You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.
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I was born a girl in a world of Branwells, but I shall be more than I am meant.
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The opposite of Calypso is apocalypse.
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I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
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All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap so very high that grown-up hearts flutter in terror.
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How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?