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Funny how question contains the word quest inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.

Catherynne M. Valente

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Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
Literary Critic
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However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to forgive beautiful women, especially when they lay a sorrowful tale before you like a sugar-dusted meal. It does not mean they deserve forgiveness.
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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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An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.
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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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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
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Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.
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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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Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.
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He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.
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Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a maiden in a tower— At this the Witch spat, again rolling her marvelous eyes. Those revolting creatures are always getting themselves locked up. If only they would stay that way.
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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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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I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we all, dear,” said the Minotaur kindly. “The thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them.
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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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I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.
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Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's pritty enough for homesteading but takes no ribbons at the fair. After three dead babies that fellow wanted his money back, pack her up in a box and ship her east to the wife factory.
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You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
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Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil, hypocrisy is a parlour game, like charades. Such fun, and when the evening is done we shall be holding our bellies to keep from dying of laughter.
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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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