Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow. — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely. — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of er — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else. — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Where there is a Key, there is yet hope. — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen. — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for. — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children alwa — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately. — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not p — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world chan — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The sun hitched up her trousers and soldiered on up into the sky. September squinted at it and wondered if the sun here — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again. — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
This tub is for washing your courage...When you are born your courage is new and clean. You are brave enough for anythin — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Because she did not look behind, September did not see the smoky-glass casket close itself primly up again. She did not — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
Finally, it was all finished. September was quite proud of herself, and we may be proud of her, too, for certainly I hav — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
When spring comes, I shall meet you at the Municipal Library, and you will see how much I've learned! You'll be so proud — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making