Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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If he lost everything else, pride, priapism, and producer credit, Decibel Jones would never, never give up his swagger.
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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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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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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 there are spells, they have a right to weave.
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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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They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness
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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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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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They were all whispers now, the two of them, conspirators and thieves.
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However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.
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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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She still longed for the best heights of magic, to see dragons and mermaids, to see the naked world.
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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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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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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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“Don’t worry,” Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. “My old bones will follow yours soon enough.
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So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.
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Temptation likes best those who think they have a natural immunity, for it may laugh all the harder when they succumb.
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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.
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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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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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Will Hilt to hand yet be restored? Take me up, thy mother's sword.