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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.

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

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  3. Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad. – Catherynne M Valente
  4. The steam engine has done much more for science than science has done for the steam engine. – William Thomson
  5. Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child’s room is like being asked inside their heart. – Catherynne M Valente
  6. This wasn’t just plain terrible, this was fancy terrible. This was terrible with raisins in it. – Dorothy Parker
  7. In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach. – Catherynne M Valente
  8. Anything is a poem if you say it often enough. – Catherynne M Valente
  9. Your idea of a woman is someone who gets on a chair and shrieks if she sees a mouse. That’s all prehistoric. – Agatha Christie
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. – Catherynne M Valente
  13. I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? – Catherynne M Valente
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  15. So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar. – Catherynne M Valente
  16. We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about. – Catherynne M Valente
  17. 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
  18. A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history. – Catherynne M Valente
  19. 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
  20. Dreams keep the heart alive. – Catherynne M Valente
  21. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world. – Catherynne M Valente
  22. 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
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can’t make it run the other way again. – Catherynne M Valente
  26. there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other. – Catherynne M Valente
  27. 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
  28. The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off. – Catherynne M Valente
  29. 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
  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. Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girlsare always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark. – Catherynne M Valente
  32. 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
  33. All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory. – 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. Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life! – Catherynne M Valente
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