Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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.
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My heart yields dividends unseen; thou art my soul's annuity.
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They leave when it’s over, exeunt, pursued by a bear with an empty porridge bowl.
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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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What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore?
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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?
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The opposite of Calypso is apocalypse.
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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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I do not serve your personal issues, Morevna. I serve the People, and the People will have crimes against their body answered. You fought at Leningrad. So did I. Why should he be spared?' 'Somebody ought to be.
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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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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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Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. “As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor."
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They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness
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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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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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A father is nowhere near as valuable as a spoon.
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But it is difficult for men to disbelieve a woman who insists that she wishes to serve them, and he nodded assent.
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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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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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September waited. She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.
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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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So you don’t love him. Why would you look for love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?
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It is such a hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, bt the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it.
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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.