Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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You can't fix a bad man like a bad staircase.
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As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.
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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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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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Breaking things heals a great many hurts. This is why children do it so often.
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She was a vengeful goddess and her will was absolute.
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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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She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.
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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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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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Will Hilt to hand yet be restored? Take me up, thy mother's sword.
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The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
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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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Wife sounded like something exciting, something daring, something a bit scoundrelly, like pirate or bandit. And they were bandits, of course.
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You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.
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I began my life as a character in my father's films.
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And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.
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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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She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
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Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.
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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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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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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.