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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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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Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.
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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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What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore?
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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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"Some who deserve failure do not achieve it,” he sniffed. “Some who deserve nothing are given the world.
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Dreams keep the heart alive.
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A good, solid, beefy lie is too heavy to stand on its own. It needs smaller, quicker, more complicated lies to hold it up.
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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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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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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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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 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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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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Don't you know how far women stretch?
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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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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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The opposite of Calypso is apocalypse.
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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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"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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I was born a girl in a world of Branwells, but I shall be more than I am meant.
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“First Law of Heroics.” The Monaciello grinned up at a confused September. “Someone has to tell you it’s impossible, or the Quest can’t go on."
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He looked so sorry and miserable as he pushed me out the door. It stung. It always stings when there's this whole story going on and you're really just a B-plot walk-on who only got a look at three pages of the script.