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I am the Walker and the Maze.

Catherynne M. Valente

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Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
Literary Critic
Novelist
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Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Cat Valente
Mazes
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Blue is for cruel bargains green is for daring what you oughtn’t violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes pink insists red compels. I will say to you: You are dear to me as attar of roses. Please do not get eaten.
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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 things are strange which are worth knowing.
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Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.
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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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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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So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.
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I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
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Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.
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Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.
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...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
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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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And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.
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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.
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He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.
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Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.
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I am freedom and I will eat your heart
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Woman! Come out! I have— She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. I have come to rescue you, she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.
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Husbands lie, Masha. I should know I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.
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But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.
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