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Love Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

44 Love quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

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Love is the Turing test, a way to check if something feels alive, according to Valente. She also writes that love can feel like fear, that it can be a compulsion, and that sharing secrets makes it strong. Her verses compare love to a lingering scent that reminds us of safety and closeness.

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I am freedom and I will eat your heart

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Love rarely waits for permission.

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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

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“Love is the Turing test, [...] It is how we check for life. ”

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After love, no one is what they were before.

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“But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.”

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Someone ought to write a novel about me,

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You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.

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Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.

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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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You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

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“This is my heart—carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my…

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“You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won't forget your war either.”

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“He'll burn you down like wax if you let him. You'll think it's love, while he dines on your heart. And maybe…

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“How I adore you, Marya. How well I chose. Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn…

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Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No…

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That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and…

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“If a bird or any other beast comes out of that uncanny republic where husbands are grown, I will see him with…

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Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smiling just because…

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“As ever, you are wiser than I, you old genie. May the Stars grant that you are always here to look after…

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Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After…

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At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone…

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I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast…

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“Love was a magic fairy spell. Didn't the girls in my books hunt after love like it was a deer with a…

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Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high ambitions. The…

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You will always go into that tent. You will see her scar and wonder where she got it. You will always be…

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Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost…

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“All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending. You throw out murders and…

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“You come and go, vanish and appear. You miss years that go by for us, and we miss years that go by…

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“I had some peculiar ideas about love. I’ll tell you what I thought on the subject back then: it’s about as much…

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“Children, you must understand, are monsters. They are ravenous, ravening, they lope over the countryside with slavering mouths, seeking love to devour.…

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“You see him and you think me and I knew if you saw him first you would be afraid because it is…

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“Listen to me. Love is a Yeti. It is bigger than you and frightening and terrible. It makes loud and vicious noises.…

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The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you…

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“...she had saved herself for this, stored her love within her so that this book, which could not possibly have been written…

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“Why should I care about you first kiss,' he said. 'You can kiss anyone you like. But sometimes if you wanted to…

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“I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies…

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“I just want to be the size of a galaxy so I can eat all the stars and gas giants without them…

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One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some…

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“Let us be greedy together; let us hoard. Let us hit each other with birch branches and lock each other in dungeons;…

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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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