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Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.

Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.
– Catherynne M Valente

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  1. If we didn’t read people who were bastards, we’d never read anything. Even the best of us are at least part-time bastards. – Mary Karr
  2. Just tell yourself a story that’ll satisfy you and pretend he told it. – Catherynne M Valente
  3. Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That’s what death is for. That’s why they keep telling this story. It’s the only story. – Catherynne M Valente
  4. A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it. – Catherynne M Valente
  5. How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do? – Catherynne M Valente
  6. For Satan’s deceptions to be successful, they must be so cunningly devised that his real purpose is concealed by wiles. – Billy Graham
  7. Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup. – Catherynne M Valente
  8. We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly. – Catherynne M Valente
  9. Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That’s the only way to live in the awful old ocean. – Catherynne M Valente
  10. The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. – Anita Diamant
  11. It’s a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you. – Catherynne M Valente
  12. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world. – Catherynne M Valente
  13. When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can’t make it run the other way again. – Catherynne M Valente
  14. there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other. – Catherynne M Valente
  15. No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings. – Catherynne M Valente
  16. The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off. – Catherynne M Valente
  17. Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad. – Catherynne M Valente
  18. A kiss is a course of procedure cunningly devised, for the mutual stopage of speech at a moment when words are superfluous. – Oliver Herford
  19. What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. – Richie Norton
  20. Love is infinite. Grief can lead to love. Love can lead to grief. Grief is a love story told backward just as love is a grief story told backward. – Bridget Asher
  21. Rich must thank poor; if poor unite, rich will have no place to hide. – Vinita Kinra
  22. I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? – Catherynne M Valente
  23. So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar. – Catherynne M Valente
  24. We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about. – Catherynne M Valente
  25. I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.Nothing to brag on,but enough for you, and all your friends, too. – Catherynne M Valente
  26. Dreams keep the heart alive. – Catherynne M Valente
  27. I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston. – Catherynne M Valente
  28. I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not. – Catherynne M Valente
  29. you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy. – Catherynne M Valente
  30. The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces-” those, I think, are the sensations of grief. – Catherynne M Valente
  31. Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you. – Catherynne M Valente
  32. All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory. – Catherynne M Valente
  33. A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic. – Catherynne M Valente
  34. Music has more rules than math or magic and it’s twice as dangerous as both or either. – Catherynne M Valente
  35. But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs. – Catherynne M Valente
  36. Don’t worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from? – Catherynne M Valente
  37. She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice. – Catherynne M Valente
  38. It’s Survival of Them Who’s Best at Nicking Things, girl! – Catherynne M Valente
  39. Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening. – Catherynne M Valente
  40. We are halves, but we make an infinite whole. – Catherynne M Valente

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