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• Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.

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  Naps, Weather, Had Enough

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.104, Macmillan

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• A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.

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  Girl, Feet, Leopards

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.23, Macmillan

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• Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am a blank paper on which you and your magic wrote a girl. Just the kind of girl you wanted, all hungry and hurt and needing. A machine for loving you. Nothing in me was not made by you.

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  Girl, Hurt, Loving You

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• I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

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  Bitterness, Privilege, Born

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.67, Macmillan

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• I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

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  Girl, Reading, Long

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While: A Tor.Com Original”, p.13, Macmillan

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• And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alone. Marya was not aimless, anyway. She was thinking.

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  Thinking, Mad, Left

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.

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  Fall, Sides, Criminals

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.131, Macmillan

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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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  Latin, Government, Language

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.618, Macmillan

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• I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.

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  Elephants, Different, Had Enough

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• Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

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  Looks, Proud, Littles

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• ...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

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  Hook, Cry, Throat

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• I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.

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  Lying, Book, Garden

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• However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to forgive beautiful women, especially when they lay a sorrowful tale before you like a sugar-dusted meal. It does not mean they deserve forgiveness.

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  Beautiful, Mean, Forgiving

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• We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.

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  Moon, Thinking, Rocks

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• Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've no business questioning the lifestyles of wine-makers or anyone else.

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  Wall, Wine, Love Is

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