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Truth Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

12 Truth quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

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Valente’s poetic imagination turns truth into a shimmering thread through her stories, and these twelve snippets capture that delicate balance. Though brief, the selection offers a taste of her ability to make honesty feel both magical and grounded.

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“I belong in the refrigerator. Because the truth is, I'm just food for a superhero. He'll eat up my death and get…

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“However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.”

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This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and…

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“A good, solid, beefy lie is too heavy to stand on its own. It needs smaller, quicker, more complicated lies to hold…

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“Some thought he was quite wicked, but in truth, he was no more or less than any other crow: enamored of bright…

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“There are many sorts of lies. You could fill a shop with them. To be sure, lies are terribly common.”

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“In future days you will call John Mandeville a liar, and my shade will laugh at you and say: true, true, I…

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“The trouble with lies is that they love company. Once you tell a single lie, that lie gets terribly excited and calls…

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“Truth is: I was always that kind of girl. Truth is: they don’t make dresses any whiter than mine. Truth is: I…

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“Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a blackguard, wolfish, severe. In service to…

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“But you know, a wizard with black hair and a thick mustache put a curse on Moscow, and Petrograd, too, so that…

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“Many people in this room have an Etsy store where they create unique, unreplicable artifacts or useful items to be sold on…

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

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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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