Catherynne M. Valente Quotes - Page 9

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• Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. ”I have come for the girl in the window,” he said, and his eyes filled with tears

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  Girl, Eye, Men

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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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• 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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• I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.

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  Children, Believe, Unique

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.31, Macmillan

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• Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am a blank paper on which you and your magic wrote a girl. Just the kind of girl you wanted, all hungry and hurt and needing. A machine for loving you. Nothing in me was not made by you.

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  Girl, Hurt, Loving You

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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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• 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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• Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.

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  Eye, Dancing, House

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.58, 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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• Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.

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  Missing, Kitchen, Infidelity

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• This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.

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  Heart, Causes, Trouble

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.304, Macmillan

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• I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

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  Warm, Freeze, Softness

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.207, Macmillan

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• You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.

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  Heart, White, Onions

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.527, Macmillan

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• It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.

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  Law, Honor, Novelists

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.205, 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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• September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and sour. Poor child. There is always a first time, and it is never the last time.

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  Children, Feelings, Lasts

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.500, Macmillan

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• Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.

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  Father, War, Shadow

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.576, 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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• Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.

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  Sometimes, Splendid, Wells

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.58, Macmillan

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• You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".

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  Sleep, Winter, Night

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.200, Macmillan

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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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• Never trust anyone under one hundred!

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  Never Trust, Hundred, Never Trust Anyone

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making”, p.198, 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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• 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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