Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.
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Decibel Jones sighed and shook his head. Today was fired. Today was well and truly sacked. Today could, in point of fact, fuck all the way off.
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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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We always dreamed the same dreams, which was like living twice.
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Sometimes, magic is like that. It lands on your head like a piano, a stupid, ancient, unfunny joke, and you spend the rest of your life picking sharps and flats out of your hair.
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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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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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I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.
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Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.
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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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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
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You can't fix a bad man like a bad staircase.
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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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Old things have strange hungers.
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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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Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
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His parties have room for all. Come on in. Nobody to look at you funny in here. Nobody to tell you not to have that drink, kiss that fella, smash that chair, light that chandelier on fire. Do it all. Do it all forever.
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It’s the most marvelous and terrible thing in the world. Everyone, but everyone, is pretending to be someone else.
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Sweet as cherries, bright as berries, light of my moony sky.
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When I grew a little older, and had suitors, I demanded from them rings from the bottom of the sea, or a sword from the depths of the desert, or a golden bough and a thick golden fleece, too, before I allowed even one kiss.
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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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Draw the world the way you want it. Draw it and it will be.
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She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.