Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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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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A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks
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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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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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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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It is in the nature of winds to Snatch and Grasp at things, and Blow Them Away.
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You’re better off - theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
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Everybody was terribly distracted by the seemingly unending, white-hot, existential, logistical, mostly mundane troubles of their own day-to-day lives.
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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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For a witch is nothing without her Spoon.
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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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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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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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There a difference between having been coded to present a vast set of standardized responses to certain human facial, vocal, and linguistic states and having evolved to exhibit response B to input A in order to bring about a desired social result?
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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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No one says a word that has not been spoken a thousand times before, a thousand thousand times, and even the first of those was a repetition of words that came before.
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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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Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
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There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always.
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I began my life as a character in my father's films.
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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 can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!