Catherynne M. Valente Quotes - Page 9

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• ... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.

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  Space, People, Together

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• The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

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  Blessing, Youth, Enough

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• Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in step; we act out the same tales, over and over, the same sets of motions, while time piles up like yarn under a wheel. We like patterns. They’re comforting. Sometimes little things change—a car instead of a house, a girl not named Yelena. But it’s no different, not really. Not ever.

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  Girl, Yarn, Track

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• Oh, but Masha, can’t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time for bed, little one. You cannot have both. In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.

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  War, Bridges, Black

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• When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good for that, Masha. They'll always want you working, when you're not softening their fall into bed at the end of the day.

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  Fall, Sleep, Men

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.242, Macmillan

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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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• I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.

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  Children, Lying, Heart

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• We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

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  Girl, Girlfriend, Writing

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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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• 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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• Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.

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  Sweet, Husband, Lying

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.109, Macmillan

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• Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.

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  Queens, Water, Earth

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.138, Macmillan

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• September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you know, you’re tied to train tracks. But her wild, untried heart opened up another bloom inside her, a dark branch heavy with fruit.

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  Sympathy, Heart, Dark

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.517, Macmillan

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• The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.

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  Girl, Littles, Messy

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.31, 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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• Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The sadness of that is too grown-up for you. Like whiskey and voting, it is a dangerous and heady business, as heavy as years. If I could keep your little tribe together forever, I would. I do so want to be generous. But some stories sprout bright vines that tendril off beyond our sight, carrying the folk we love best with them, and if I knew how to accept that with grace, I would share the secret.

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  Ambition, Sadness, Sight

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• Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for gently and given gladly. It had happened so fast and sharp it had taken her breath. Perhaps she had done it wrong, somehow. She put the kiss away firmly to think about later. Instead, she smiled at him and pulled a carefree mask over her face.

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  Sweet, Nice, Taken

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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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• 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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• 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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• All stories must end so, with the next tale winking out of the corners of the last pages, promising more, promising moonlight and dancing and revels, if only you will come back when spring comes again.

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  Spring, Dancing, Stories

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.279, Macmillan

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• The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that he will not leave home too soon, so he tells a story about how one drowned his brother’s cousin’s friend in a lake, not because he was a pig who deserved to be drowned, but because beautiful women are bad, and also witches. And it doesn’t matter that she didn’t ask to be beautiful, or to be born in a lake, or to live forever, or to not know how men breathe until they stop doing it.

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  Beautiful, Cousin, Brother

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• I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast comes out of that uncanny republic where husbands are grown, I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.' For this is how Marya Morevna surmised that love was shaped: an agreement, a treaty between two nations that one could either sign or not as they pleased.

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  Falling In Love, Husband, Two Nations

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.24, Macmillan

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• For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do they know reason or restraint, and if you want to know the truth, a goodly number of grown-up hearts never learn it.

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  Teenage, Children, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.316, Macmillan

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• I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of daft dreams. They flounce off to write poetry and moon at folk who aren't worth the mooning. Bones are the ones that have to make the journey, fight the monster, kneel before whomever is big on kneeling these days. Bones do the work for the heart's grand plans. Bones know what you need. Hearts only know want.

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  Dream, Writing, Heart

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.402, Feiwel & Friends

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