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You are a Witch. I am a Prince. In all the books, where there is a Witch and a Prince there is a way.
— Catherynne M Valente
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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Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening.
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I opened my door and everything they had for me was tainted because the land of Used-to-Be is just full of ghosts starving for your breath.
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Things I Will Try to Say More Often: Why? I love you. I'm sorry. May I have chocolate? Yes. yes. yes.
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One is always homesick for places where one came to grief.
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There must be a way! I have begun a Quest! Quests do not simply end. You win or you lose; it is not just suddenly over.
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It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
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But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals.
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.
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He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.
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You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men - and exceedingly stupid men, usually - do.
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In the beginning there was Dust, and in the end there will be Dust, and in the middle there is Dust, Dust, Dust!
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It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.
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... That's what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. ...
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Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.
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I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not.
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When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.
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A thing too familiar becomes invisible.
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The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.
— Catherynne M Valente
There is no such thing as a good wife or a good husband. Only ones who bide their time.
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The Marsh King raised himself up and ushered me out the door with the air of a host who has just realized he is one guest away from a comfortable nap.
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You can tell all that about me from your measuring tape?''Well, I use the metric system, It's the only way to get really exact numbers. — Catherynne M Valente
I've a devil of a habit for being right.
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Why should he be spared?''Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared. — Catherynne M Valente
It is not so easy to always remember who you are.
— Catherynne M Valente
Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she is right?
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She was determined that I hold this thing inside me like a heart - something irremovable and constant.
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All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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Some switches must be flipped, and some children cannot help turning off to on and on to off, just to see what will happen.
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If there are spells, they have a right to weave.
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The kind of smile that has kept a froggy, dark sort of surprise in its back pocket, and won't spoil it too soon.
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I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.
— Catherynne M Valente
Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.
— Catherynne M Valente
Don't you ever feellike you're just
a story someone is telling
about someone like you? — Catherynne M Valente
It tasted like a shade of white near blue; it tasted like the idea of pearls; it tasted like a memory nearly grasped but lost at the last moment.
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Where there's a labyrinth, there's a minotaur, and vice versa! I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur.
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We hold demonstrations and civil wars when inequities are discovered.
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The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
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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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What maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
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You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That
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Bad luck relies absolutely on perfect timing
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The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
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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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I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.
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Check your pockets, my chimney-child.
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What happens to the West happens to Snow White, which is to say they both turn into jokes.
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People are clocks who think they wind themselves.
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But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life. If
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Histories are instruments of oppression.
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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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All tamed things are made a bit ridiculous in the process, you know.
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A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it.
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Be nice to Fairyland. She is old and tender of heart and when her feelings are hurt, she cries volcanoes.
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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?
— Catherynne M Valente
All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
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No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way.
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It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
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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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He missed youlike a fish in a bowl
misses the open sea. — Catherynne M Valente
September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.
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They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness
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they leave when it's over, exeunt, pursued by a bear with an empty porridge bowl. If
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Her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
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Draw the world the way you want it. Draw it and it will be.
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In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
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Honesty is such a nasty habit, dear. Like biting your nails.
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She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ears inside her, slowly, but getting stronger.
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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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How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times!
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What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
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I have not been in Fairyland nearly long enough to start crying, September thought, then bit her tongue savagely.
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We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident,
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Today I shall be a wicked murderous tyrant and crush something nice under my heel.
— Catherynne M Valente
Lebedeva snapped her fingers. "It's like lying!" she exclaimed. "Well, we understand that, of course! The bigger the lie, the happier the liar.
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A prophetic world that can never come true.
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Thing is, just because you make a body shiver don't make it yours.
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But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
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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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An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.
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Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering.
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Dreams keep the heart alive.
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A library is never complete. That's the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
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That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
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I think I look a little like a pumpkin," whispered September, secretly delighted. "I'm all green and orange.
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...the beginning is where the end gets born.
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This is how you learn to see: You put together a crew. No one can see a damn thing clearly with only two eyes.
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Punishment doesn't mean you aren't loved. On the contrary. You can only punish someone you love.
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I chose you," he said simply. "All of the fish of me turned toward you at once.
— Catherynne M Valente
I will keep it safe for you, Saturday whispered, barely brave enough to say it.
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if enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren't really lost at all anymore.
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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
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Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing. I
— Catherynne M Valente
Narrators may go where they please.
— Catherynne M Valente
Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
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All things are strange which are worth knowing.
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