Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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We hold demonstrations and civil wars when inequities are discovered.
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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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Brine shrimp were not overly talkative, squirrels failed to make significant headway in the fields of technology and mathematics, and seagulls were clearly unburdened by reason, feeling, or remorse.
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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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“Brother," he wept, "my heart is being cut in two. I cannot bear it." "Tscha!" said the Tsar of Birds. "Life is like that.”
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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 better off - theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
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“Don’t worry,” Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. “My old bones will follow yours soon enough.
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You can't blame a book for its story.
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Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.
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If there are spells, they have a right to weave.
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Morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation.
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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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Every person draws a map that shows themselves at the center. But that does not mean that no other countries exist.
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I said: I could be a wolf for you. I could put my teeth on your throat. I could growl. I could eat you whole. I could wait for you in the dark. I could howl against your hair.
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Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.
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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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But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.
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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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Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering.
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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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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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We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive. This is Russia and it is 1952. What else would you call hell?