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That's what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It's practically what they're for.

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
– Catherynne M Valente

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  1. A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history. – Catherynne M Valente
  2. 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
  3. The world happens as it happens, but we construct what we remember and what we forget. And people will eventually do that to us, too. – Chuck Klosterman
  4. I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? – Catherynne M Valente
  5. War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately. – Catherynne M Valente
  6. So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar. – Catherynne M Valente
  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. Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody’s buying. – Catherynne M Valente
  9. It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. – Catherynne M Valente
  10. Your past’s a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can’t hurt anyone. – Catherynne M Valente
  11. I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves. – Catherynne M Valente
  12. Dreams keep the heart alive. – Catherynne M Valente
  13. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world. – Catherynne M Valente
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. 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
  17. When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can’t make it run the other way again. – Catherynne M Valente
  18. 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
  19. 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
  20. The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off. – Catherynne M Valente
  21. 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
  22. You can’t trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face! – 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. Music has more rules than math or magic and it’s twice as dangerous as both or either. – Catherynne M Valente
  28. Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad. – Catherynne M Valente
  29. Anything is a poem if you say it often enough. – Catherynne M Valente
  30. 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
  31. She was … unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies. – Catherynne M Valente
  32. Don’t worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from? – Catherynne M Valente
  33. She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice. – Catherynne M Valente
  34. It’s Survival of Them Who’s Best at Nicking Things, girl! – Catherynne M Valente
  35. Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life! – Catherynne M Valente
  36. 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
  37. Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. – Catherynne M Valente
  38. 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
  39. We are halves, but we make an infinite whole. – Catherynne M Valente
  40. Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more. – Catherynne M Valente

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