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A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
Literary Critic
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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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Someone ought to write a novel about me.
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Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.
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The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
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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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You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
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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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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.
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You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of the thickest onion.
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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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All things are strange which are worth knowing.
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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
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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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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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It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.
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We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
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I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God?
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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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