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The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.

Catherynne M. Valente

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Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Cat Valente
Motley
Messy
Future
Girl
Business
Littles
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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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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
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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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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
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Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.
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He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.
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It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
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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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But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.
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A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
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The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you close and made you safe, you will remember how it smells just as well as I do.
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Snow is the beginning and the end of everything.
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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.
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It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.
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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.
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In his own country, Death can be kind.
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You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run - and always faster than you think.
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...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.
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You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.
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Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago.
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