Catherynne M. Valente Quotes - Page 6

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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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• Don’t worry,” Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. “My old bones will follow yours soon enough.

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  Kissing, Soon Enough, Worry

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.327, Macmillan

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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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• I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are more alike than you think? Well,” the Marquess took September’s hand in hers and very gently kissed it. “We are. Oh, how alike we are! I feel very warmly towards you, and I only want to protect you, as I wish someone had protected me. Come, September, look out the window with me. It’s not a difficult thing. A show of faith, let’s call it.

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  Thinking, Hands, Soul

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.217, Macmillan

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• No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.

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  War

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.345, Macmillan

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• That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you vanished, the tale would keep turning, keep playing, like a phonograph, and you'd have to get up again, even with a bullet through your eye, to play your part and say your lines.

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  Eye, Play, World

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• Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.

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  Trying, Doe, World

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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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• 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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• 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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• But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women she had been met—the Yaichkan and the Leningrader and the chyerti maiden; the girl who saw the birds, and the girl who never did—the woman she was and the woman she might have been and the woman she would always be, forever intersecting and colliding, a thousand birds falling from a thousand oaks, over and over.

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  Girl, Fall, Bird

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.346, Macmillan

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• I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

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  Book, Needs

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While: A Tor.Com Original”, p.13, 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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• September could see it. She did not know what is was she saw. That is the disadvantage of being a heroine, rather than a narrator. She knew only that a red light glowed and went dark, glowed and went dark.

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  Dark, Light, Narrators

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.210, 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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• 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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• What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

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  Boxing, Devil, World

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.272, Macmillan

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• At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they misbehave. It is unseemly and betrays a sad lack of creativity.

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  Sibling, Creativity, Towers

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

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  Christian, Quitting, Blushing

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Someone ought to write a novel about me.

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  Writing, Novel, Ought

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.102, 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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