Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.
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...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.
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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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Calpurnia squinted through her goggles and thought to herself, That is a Key. Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.
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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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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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September drank in the starry sky with a longing and a tugging and a sigh. All the way up, to that enormous crescent in the black.
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It's like Goguenar's Fourth General Unkillable Fact says: Everyone's always saying love is the element that binds the universe together, but that's a load of bollocks; It's convenience.
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You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty.
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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 if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
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But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.
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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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The grass and the rivers and the stones and women and horses and more Stars and men and clouds and birds and trees came dancing through the afterbirth of the Mare
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Fairyland is a very Scientifick place. We subscribe to all the best journals.
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Will Hilt to hand yet be restored? Take me up, thy mother's sword.
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If there are spells, they have a right to weave.
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We hold demonstrations and civil wars when inequities are discovered.
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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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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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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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Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.
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No one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough
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Pandemic, Pangaea, Panacea, Panoply. Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.