Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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How I adore you, Marya. How well I chose. Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don’t leave me.
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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.
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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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Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
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You’re better off - theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
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When the aliens come, there’ll be one queue to fight them and one queue to fuck them, and the second one’ll be longer by light-years.
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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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The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.
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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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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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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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Just you wait. Papa Koschei is coming, coming, coming, over the hills on his red horse and he's got bells on his boots and a ring in his poket and he knows your name, Marya Morevna.
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But old women faced certain dangers in Fairyland, such as breaking a hip while riding a wild velocipede, or having everyone do what you say just because you had wrinkles.
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I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.
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"I think I look a little like a pumpkin,” whispered September, secretly delighted. “I’m all green and orange.
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Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.
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Sell your soul and half your shoes for a glass of gin.
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But the Tsar of Death and the Tsar of Life greatly feared one another, for Death is surrounded by souls, and is never lonely, and the Tsar of Life had hidden his death away in a place deeper than secrets, and more secret than depth.
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How long was it, between the time when you were happy, and the time when you wanted to kill him?
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I sell Damascus steel, folded and intricate, dug up from the earth, practically useless, desirable only to lovers of the arcane, the beautiful, the old. No
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The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
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But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.
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September had only had coffee once, when her Aunt Margaret had snuck her a sip while her mother wasn’t looking. It tasted bitter, but wild and strange. She rather wanted to taste it again.
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I began my life as a character in my father's films.