Catherynne M. Valente Quotes - Page 7

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• I am the Walker and the Maze.

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  Mazes, Walkers

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• Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above us, the light shines golden on daffodils full of rainwine and heartgrass and a terrible, wicked, sad girl I can't get back to. I don't even know if I want to. Do I want to be her again? Or do I want to be free? I come here to think about that. To be near her and consider it. I think I shall never be free. I think I traded my freedom for a better story. It was a better story, even if the ending needed work.

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  Girl, Thinking, Past

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• I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want to keep being myself and mind the work that minds me. Work is not always a hard thing that looms over your years. Sometimes, work is the gift of the world to the wanting.

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  Hero, Knights, Years

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.356, Macmillan

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• You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.

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  Heart, Bones, Behinds

  Catherynne M. Valente (2013). “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two”, p.177, Feiwel & Friends

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• Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.

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  Work Out, Monsters, Culture

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• Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings. They must sweep their hearts clean of anything but kisses and theater and dancing. They must never read Pushkin; they must never say clever things; they must never have sly eyes or wear their hair loose and wander around barefoot, or they will draw his attention!

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  Girl, Clever, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.41, Macmillan

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• It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so?

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  Self, Should, Appeals

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• Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.

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  Christian, Quitting, Blushing

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• Here! 'Not thread nor glue, not nails nor screws, will ever self and shadow wed.' Helpful, those poet-types. Perhaps this one: 'Seek the grimy queen of dread machines, if you your errant shadow miss.' Now that's quite good! As a Prophetic Utterance, Third Class (Vague Hints and Mysterious Signs), you couldn't ask for better. It's downright plain-spoken!

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  Queens, Self, Class

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.202, Macmillan

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• You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

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  I Love You, Falling In Love, Cutting

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.178, Macmillan

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• Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.

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  Hurt, Xbox, Past

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• All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

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  Jobs, Naps, Games

  Catherynne M. Valente (2013). “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two”, p.47, Macmillan

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• We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours - they are in your care, and you must be faithful.

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  Dust, Giving, Wife

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• First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.

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  Night, Avid, Life And Death

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.47, Macmillan

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• It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.

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  Jealous, Years, Secret

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.25, Macmillan

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• Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's pritty enough for homesteading but takes no ribbons at the fair. After three dead babies that fellow wanted his money back, pack her up in a box and ship her east to the wife factory.

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  Baby, Wife, Ships

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• Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that I err on the side of witchery, witchery that unlocks towers and empties ships.

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  Lovely, Towers, Ships

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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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  Skirts, Eyelids, Leningrad

  "Deathless". Book by Catherynne M. Valente, March 29, 2011.

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• I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It's not done! You don't go out of your house without any clothes on, and a minotaur doesn't go into the world without a labyrinth to keep him warm.

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  Clothes, House, Labyrinth

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.199, Macmillan

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• Men die. It's practically what they're for.

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  Men, Dies

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• Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.

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  Brain

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.281, Macmillan

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• You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

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  Irony, Humans, Built

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.313, Macmillan

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• …everything has a narrative, really, and if you can’t understand a story and relate to it, figure out how you fit inside it, you’re not really alive at all.

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  Stories, Alive, Narrative

  "Silently and Very Fast". Book by Catherynne M. Valente, 2011.

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• Most of them... most of us never figure it out. Bad dream, they think, or good one. Funny rash, never really goes away, but Doc says it's fine, nothing to worry about. Why dwell on it? But some people, they just can't let it go... Some people drink themselves out of school trying to find it again, trolling through bars where the shadows are so greasy they leave trails on the walls, just to find a way in, a way through. Some people forget too that you're supposed to stop sleeping, you're supposed to have a life in the sun.

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  Dream, Wall, School

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• Death stands behind every bride, every groom.

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  Brides, Behinds

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.164, Macmillan

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