Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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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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"Some who deserve failure do not achieve it,” he sniffed. “Some who deserve nothing are given the world.
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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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I am sustained by Being Necessary.
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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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What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore?
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The opposite of Calypso is apocalypse.
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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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If enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren’t really lost at all anymore.
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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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Dreams keep the heart alive.
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Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.
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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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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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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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Where’s the nerdy shy Predator scientist who figured out how to build a spaceship while all the big jock Predators were down the pub ripping one another’s spines out, eh?
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However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.
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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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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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How long was it, between the time when you were happy, and the time when you wanted to kill him?
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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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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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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.