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Marriage Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

15 Marriage quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

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Catherynne M. Valente’s marriage musings swirl with lyrical imagination, each of the fifteen lines weaving mythic threads into the fabric of partnership. Her poetic voice invites readers to see love as both a grounded reality and a fantastical adventure.

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“A ring don’t make a bride, that’s all.”

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Death stands behind every bride, every groom.

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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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In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can…

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Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I've eaten my share. That's lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a…

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“CHYTERA: [...] May I... May I ask? You wear a wedding ring, but on the wrong hand. Indulge my curiosity? ERASMO: She…

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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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Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings.…

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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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Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is…

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“Real life is all beginnings. Days, weeks, children, journeys, marriages, inventions. Even a murder is the beginning of a criminal. Perhaps even…

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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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“Of course, Storm-Lord! But why would a god marry a poor farm girl?" asked one of the bound novices, his voice thin…

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“Marya put down her fork. “Why are you doing this, Koschei? I have had lovers before. You have, too. Remember Marina? The…

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“Rules or no rules, it was certainly better to see these things than not to see them. Marya felt that she had…

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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.

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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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