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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.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
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Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.
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You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.
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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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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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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
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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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... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
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Love, I've never been anyone's mother I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smiling just because I flap my mouth and say something that's not dressed around the edges like a lace tablecloth. Thicken up and we'll get along fine.
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And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.
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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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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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How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.
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One of the many quotes on love...Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some never learn it well. Love is like a tool, though it is not a tool something strange and wonderful to use, difficult to master, and mysterious in its provenance.
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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