Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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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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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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“Don’t worry,” Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. “My old bones will follow yours soon enough.
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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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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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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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If he lost everything else, pride, priapism, and producer credit, Decibel Jones would never, never give up his swagger.
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Fairyland is a very Scientifick place. We subscribe to all the best journals.
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No one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough
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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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Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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For a witch is nothing without her Spoon.
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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.
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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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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.