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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Seattle
Washington
Cat Valente
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There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a gap in the hedgerows or a mushroom ring or a tornado or a wardrobe full of winter coats.
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The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
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She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
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A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
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I am freedom and I will eat your heart
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Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.
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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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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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Never trust anyone under one hundred!
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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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...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.
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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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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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And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.
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An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.
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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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Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
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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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