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Catherynne M. Valente
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Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
Literary Critic
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Seattle
Washington
Cat Valente
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September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so.
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I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.
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I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
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Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.
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A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
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Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.
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When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start another.
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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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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.
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After love, no one is what they were before.
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First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.
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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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I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.
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Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.
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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 should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.
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All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
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I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.
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I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.
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