Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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In a city by the sea that was certainly never called anything so bourgeois as St. Petersburg, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street.
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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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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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They were all whispers now, the two of them, conspirators and thieves.
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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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Sometimes, magic is like that. It lands on your head like a piano, a stupid, ancient, unfunny joke, and you spend the rest of your life picking sharps and flats out of your hair.
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If he lost everything else, pride, priapism, and producer credit, Decibel Jones would never, never give up his swagger.
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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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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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And honey, everybody eats art and drinks stories. It's the best drunk there is!
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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.
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She still longed for the best heights of magic, to see dragons and mermaids, to see the naked world.
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A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks
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All coral in every world think of Australia the way that you and I think of Mesopotamia - it is the ancestral paradise of their civilization and they send it Valentines each February.
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They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness
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And when funny things happen, you just have to go along, don't you? Because they might never happen again and you'll have missed the joke of it, missed the fun, and then when you're old and your kittens ask you what you did when the world had its glad rags on, you won't have nothing to say, will you?
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This is what a grown-up looks like, thought September. Not like the grown-ups in my world who look sad and disappointed and grimy with work and bored with everything.
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If there are spells, they have a right to weave.
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You're just shy of figuring out how to shuffle your horde of hormone-curdled control-obsessed malignant narcissists off world. In short, you were about to become our problem. But now there is no problem! Now there is a process.
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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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It is in the nature of winds to Snatch and Grasp at things, and Blow Them Away.
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Will Hilt to hand yet be restored? Take me up, thy mother's sword.
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Some small ones learn to stitch together a Coat of Scowls or a Scarf of Jokes to hide their Hearts. Some hammer up a Fort of Books to protect theirs.