Looks Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

13 Looks quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

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Catherynne M. Valente’s prose treats appearance as a fairy‑tale mirror. In thirteen poetic lines she blends imagination with critique, turning the act of looking into a fantastical, introspective experience.

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You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the…

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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

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Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying…

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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that…

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I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled…

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Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike.…

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I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the…

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You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing, adulthood looks like a…

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Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events.…

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A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between…

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I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You…

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It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be…

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Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three…

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“He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle…

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“Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.”

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“The cicada lies in the earth for seventeen years. It is warm and dark there, it is soft and wet. Its little legs curl…

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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…

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Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for…

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“September put her hand on the grip of the Rivet Gun. She’d only just gotten it, and she’d promised to take copious notes for…

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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

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“You see, the future is a kind of stew, a soup, a vichyssoise of the present and the past. That's how you get the…

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Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are…

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“There is a place, September, oh, very far from Pandemonium. A place where it is always autumn, where there is always cider and pumpkin…

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“I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.”

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Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are small. You…

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