"We all live inside the terrible engine of……" — Catherynne M. Valente
"We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly."
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237 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
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I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to.…
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Someone ought to write a novel about me,
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These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive…
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After love, no one is what they were before.
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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.
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Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.
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All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
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We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine…
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First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life…
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The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
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Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl…
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