Monsters Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

8 Monsters quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

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Catherynne M. Valente’s imagination loves to tinker with the uncanny. In these eight lines she stitches together myth and modern dread, giving you a compact taste of her lyrical monster‑making.

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Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.

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“If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If you’ve built a steam-powered wishing…

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“And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that,…

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Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!" "Your Formula must result…

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I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill monsters—value B—for the purpose…

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I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.” The Minotaur glanced up at her. “So are we…

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“Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?”

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Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incredibly interesting and powerful.

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

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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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