Stills Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

13 Stills quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

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Valente’s prose usually weaves intricate fantasy, but these thirteen snippets pull back to focus on the pause between worlds. The result is a dreamy yet grounded sense of how quiet can be a portal to wonder.

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A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.

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Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer…

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Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was neither, but better that…

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You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone,…

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Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to…

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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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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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Hats change everything. September knew this with all her being, deep in the place where she knew her own name, and that…

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The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on…

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True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come…

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I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin…

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I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach…

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She put her hand on her chest. “I have magic yet. If you will set the clock working again, then I must…

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

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