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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. — Catherynne M Valente

Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

Things I Will Try to Say More Often: Why? I love you. I'm sorry. May I have chocolate? Yes. yes. yes. — Catherynne M Valente

One is always homesick for places where one came to grief. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it. — Catherynne M Valente

But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals. — Catherynne M Valente

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men - and exceedingly stupid men, usually - do. — Catherynne M Valente

In the beginning there was Dust, and in the end there will be Dust, and in the middle there is Dust, Dust, Dust! — Catherynne M Valente

It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you. — Catherynne M Valente

... That's what a map is, you know. Just a memory. Just a wish to go back home - someday, somehow. ... — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

A thing too familiar becomes invisible. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

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? — Catherynne M Valente

She was determined that I hold this thing inside me like a heart - something irremovable and constant. — Catherynne M Valente

All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad. — Catherynne M Valente

Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M Valente

Some switches must be flipped, and some children cannot help turning off to on and on to off, just to see what will happen. — Catherynne M Valente

If there are spells, they have a right to weave. — Catherynne M Valente

The kind of smile that has kept a froggy, dark sort of surprise in its back pocket, and won't spoil it too soon. — Catherynne M Valente

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 feel
like 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. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

We hold demonstrations and civil wars when inequities are discovered. — Catherynne M Valente

The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off. — Catherynne M Valente

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat. — Catherynne M Valente

What maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue? — Catherynne M Valente

You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That — Catherynne M Valente

Bad luck relies absolutely on perfect timing — Catherynne M Valente

The future is a messy, motley business, little girl. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other. — Catherynne M Valente

Check your pockets, my chimney-child. — Catherynne M Valente

What happens to the West happens to Snow White, which is to say they both turn into jokes. — Catherynne M Valente

People are clocks who think they wind themselves. — Catherynne M Valente

But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life. If — Catherynne M Valente

Histories are instruments of oppression. — Catherynne M Valente

Wife sounded like something exciting, something daring, something a bit scoundrelly, like pirate or bandit. And they were bandits, of course. — Catherynne M Valente

All tamed things are made a bit ridiculous in the process, you know. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

Be nice to Fairyland. She is old and tender of heart and when her feelings are hurt, she cries volcanoes. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way. — Catherynne M Valente

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. — Catherynne M Valente

The best way to be the kind of girl you want to be is to do what that girl would do. — Catherynne M Valente

He missed you
like a fish in a bowl
misses the open sea. — Catherynne M Valente

September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself. — Catherynne M Valente

They climbed their ladders to wheedle and prune the trees into holiness — Catherynne M Valente

they leave when it's over, exeunt, pursued by a bear with an empty porridge bowl. If — Catherynne M Valente

Her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat. — Catherynne M Valente

Draw the world the way you want it. Draw it and it will be. — Catherynne M Valente

In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach. — Catherynne M Valente

Honesty is such a nasty habit, dear. Like biting your nails. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

But it is difficult for men to disbelieve a woman who insists that she wishes to serve them, and he nodded assent. — Catherynne M Valente

How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times! — Catherynne M Valente

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists? — Catherynne M Valente

I have not been in Fairyland nearly long enough to start crying, September thought, then bit her tongue savagely. — Catherynne M Valente

We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident, — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

A prophetic world that can never come true. — Catherynne M Valente

Thing is, just because you make a body shiver don't make it yours. — Catherynne M Valente

But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do. — Catherynne M Valente

God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking. — Catherynne M Valente

There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always. — Catherynne M Valente

An equation is a prophecy that always comes true. — Catherynne M Valente

Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering. — Catherynne M Valente

Dreams keep the heart alive. — Catherynne M Valente

A library is never complete. That's the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection. — Catherynne M Valente

That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways. — Catherynne M Valente

I think I look a little like a pumpkin," whispered September, secretly delighted. "I'm all green and orange. — Catherynne M Valente

...the beginning is where the end gets born. — Catherynne M Valente

This is how you learn to see: You put together a crew. No one can see a damn thing clearly with only two eyes. — Catherynne M Valente

Punishment doesn't mean you aren't loved. On the contrary. You can only punish someone you love. — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

if enough lost things band together, even in the darkest depths, they aren't really lost at all anymore. — Catherynne M Valente

Men die. It's practically what they're for. — Catherynne M Valente

In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end — Catherynne M Valente

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. — Catherynne M Valente

All things are strange which are worth knowing. — Catherynne M Valente