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Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

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
Perfect
Relies
Timing
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Luck
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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I am freedom and I will eat your heart
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You look like a winter night, he had told her when he had given it to her. I could sleep inside the cold of you.
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Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.
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You and I, being grown-up and having lost our hearts at least twice or thrice along the way, might shut our eyes and cry out: Not that way, child! But as we have said, September was Somewhat Heartless, and felt herself reasonably safe on that road. Children always do.
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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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One can never be sure,” the Green Wind sighed. “There is always the danger of kisses where sleeping maids are concerned. But you are safe now, and for awhile yet, and why worry about a thing that may never come to pass? Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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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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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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He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.
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That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.
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A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
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I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
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I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.
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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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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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Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
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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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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
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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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