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• I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see all, but nothing is distorted.

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  Heart, Glasses, Years

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• I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.

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  Selfish, Mates, I Am Selfish

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.162, 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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• 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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• One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But you are safe now, and for awhile yet, and why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

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  Sleep, Kissing, Wind

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.273, 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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• 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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• 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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• ...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.

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  Hook, Cry, Throat

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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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• 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 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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• 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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• The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to itself, it will commit any offense. So, too, is Death possessed of infinite strategies and a gaunt nature- but also mercy, also grace and tenderness. In his own country, Death can be kind.

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  Country, Grace, Wicked

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.79, Macmillan

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• War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.

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  War, Reading, Winning

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.93, Macmillan

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

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  Men, Dies

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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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• Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

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  Hats

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.26, Macmillan

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• Death hath no dominion.

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  Dominion

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• That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.

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  Memories, Maps, Knows

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.169, 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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