Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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“Don’t worry,” Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. “My old bones will follow yours soon enough.
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I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.
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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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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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“Oh!" cried the young man. "A little deaf child! How sweet! We should adopt her and teach her to write symphonies. She'll be all the rage in town. I'll buy her a powdered wig and a tricorne!
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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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Kid, nobody really gets anywhere in this life. Everybody just picks someplace to hunker down and barricade themselves in. Some of us just got better bricks than others.
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Fairyland is a very Scientifick place. We subscribe to all the best journals.
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So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar.
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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin.
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September waited. She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.
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How else are you supposed to deal with people who like terrible things? Hit them with a shovel till they stop, that’s how.
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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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We hold demonstrations and civil wars when inequities are discovered.
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As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.
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Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
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There is no such thing as a good wife or a good husband. Only ones who bide their time.
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"Don't trust metaphors," the wombat snorted. "If you let things start claiming to mean other things, there's no limit on how many things they can mean!"
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Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
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How long your hair has grown. You could strangle a man in it.
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Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
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We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!
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So you don’t love him. Why would you look for love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?
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She always gave the impression of having accidentally wandered in from a mad scientist’s conference, and felt rather desperate to get back.