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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• He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.

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  Sea, Missing, Missed You

  Catherynne M. Valente (2013). “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two”, p.141, Feiwel & Friends

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• I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so we all begin, determined to better our fathers' performances, knowing we can change the very nature of humanity, make it better, cleaner. But then daggers strike in the night, and peasants revolt, and all manner of atrocities become a necessity as breakfast. Only Princes believe in the greater good. Kings know there is only Reign, and all things may be committed in its holy name.

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  Strong, Kings, Father

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• She was not filled up with the sight of him, the way she had seen her sisters fill up, like silk balloons, like wineskins. Instead, he seemed to land heavily within her, like a black stone falling.

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  Fall, Sight, Filled Up

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.56, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• Snow is the beginning and the end of everything.

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  Snow, Ends, Living Happily

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.191, Macmillan

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

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  War, Cutting, Cake

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “Deathless”, p.139, Hachette UK

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• There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.

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  People, Wicked, Tools

  Catherynne M. Valente (2013). “The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two”, p.209, Macmillan

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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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• Family is a transitive property.

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  Property

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.832, Macmillan

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• Oh, I will be cruel to you, Marya Morevna. It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be. But you understand, don’t you? You are clever enough. I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable. But I am your servant. When you starve I will feed you; when you are sick I will tend you. I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased. For you alone I will be weak.

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  Clever, Selfish, Kissing

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.72, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself like watercolors.

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  Confused, Mind, Stories

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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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• …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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• 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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• Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.

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  Butterfly, Childhood, Way

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.23, Macmillan

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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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• Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result in a great deal of fighting," I mused. "Oh, yes, when applied correctly mighty and noble battles result! Of course I always win—the value of Prince X is a constant. It cannot be lesser than that of Monster Y—this is the Moral Superiority Hypothesis made famous five hundred years ago by my ancestor Ethelred, the Mathematician-King. We have never seen his equal, in all these centuries.

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  Kings, Fighting, Winning

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• Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.

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  Grief, Might, Causes

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

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• There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a gap in the hedgerows or a mushroom ring or a tornado or a wardrobe full of winter coats.

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  Winter, Mushrooms, World

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.214, Macmillan

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• You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.

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  Shining, Sparkle, Imagine

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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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