Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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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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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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The best way to be the kind of girl you want to be is to do what that girl would do.
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She was a vengeful goddess and her will was absolute.
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Sweet as cherries, bright as berries, light of my moony sky.
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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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War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.
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I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.
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Wouldn't you like to have comrades?' But she would not like that. She wanted only to rest and to read her old, rain-swollen books, turning the pages carefully, so carefully.
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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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Of late, she had felt coldness in herself, and though she feared it, she loved it too, for it made her strong.
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Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
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She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.
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You're grown - crooked and backbent, but grown - and it's time to stop hanging your heart on your mother.
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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 the most marvelous and terrible thing in the world. Everyone, but everyone, is pretending to be someone else.
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That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.
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Nobody came without their sequins roaring.
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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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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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We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!
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And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.
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Accuracy is next to godliness.