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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
Literary Critic
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Seattle
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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.
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Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one I am nothing. I am a blank paper on which you and your magic wrote a girl. Just the kind of girl you wanted, all hungry and hurt and needing. A machine for loving you. Nothing in me was not made by you.
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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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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 a map is, you know. Just a memory.
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Snow is the beginning and the end of everything.
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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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The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.
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Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.
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Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.
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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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Love, I've never been anyone's mother I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smiling just because I flap my mouth and say something that's not dressed around the edges like a lace tablecloth. Thicken up and we'll get along fine.
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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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