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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
Catherynne M. Valente
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Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
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Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
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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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But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
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So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.
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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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I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
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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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Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.
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Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.
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Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.
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Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.
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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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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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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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Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
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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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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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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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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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It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
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