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Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.

Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child’s room is like being asked inside their heart.
– Catherynne M Valente

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  1. 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
  2. It was my kingdom. And when enemies attack your kingdom, you don’t flee. You show them why it’s your kingdom. – Olan Rogers
  3. It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. – Catherynne M Valente
  4. It’s a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you. – Catherynne M Valente
  5. 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
  6. Dreams keep the heart alive. – Catherynne M Valente
  7. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world. – Catherynne M Valente
  8. You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you. – Catherynne M Valente
  9. 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
  10. That was the September I cut school six times in my first two weeks. I just couldn’t do school anymore. Something inside wouldn’t let me. – Junot Daz
  11. I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? – Catherynne M Valente
  12. So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar. – Catherynne M Valente
  13. We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about. – Catherynne M Valente
  14. 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
  15. A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history. – Catherynne M Valente
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power. – Catherynne M Valente
  19. When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can’t make it run the other way again. – Catherynne M Valente
  20. there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other. – Catherynne M Valente
  21. 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
  22. The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off. – Catherynne M Valente
  23. The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces-” those, I think, are the sensations of grief. – Catherynne M Valente
  24. Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girlsare always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark. – Catherynne M Valente
  25. 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
  26. All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory. – Catherynne M Valente
  27. A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic. – Catherynne M Valente
  28. Music has more rules than math or magic and it’s twice as dangerous as both or either. – Catherynne M Valente
  29. Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad. – Catherynne M Valente
  30. Anything is a poem if you say it often enough. – Catherynne M Valente
  31. 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
  32. Just tell yourself a story that’ll satisfy you and pretend he told it. – Catherynne M Valente
  33. Don’t worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from? – Catherynne M Valente
  34. She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice. – Catherynne M Valente
  35. It’s Survival of Them Who’s Best at Nicking Things, girl! – Catherynne M Valente
  36. Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life! – Catherynne M Valente
  37. Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening. – Catherynne M Valente
  38. 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
  39. Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. – Catherynne M Valente
  40. We are halves, but we make an infinite whole. – Catherynne M Valente

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