Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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A house is a kind of box you put a girl in.
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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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Doors opened at seven, the show started at eight. In pubs and clubs and house parties across the galaxy, the viewers at home were drunk by six.
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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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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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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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Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.
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She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
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She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.
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Funniest thing about love, how it shakes loose when no one's looking. How the dark helps it along. Maybe that's why we dug caves so much, way back when.
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Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.
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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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It is in the nature of winds to Snatch and Grasp at things, and Blow Them Away.
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She was a vengeful goddess and her will was absolute.
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Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions
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How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do?
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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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On the other side of the jelly-glass docking hatch they could see, improbably, impossibly, a hyperactive red panda jumping up and down and waving his paws at them.
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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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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
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Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
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Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.
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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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The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.