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Catherynne M. Valente Quotes: You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.
         

You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.


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But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.



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Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.



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That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.



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Never trust anyone under one hundred!



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Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.



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You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.



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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.



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If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where I'm going, I'll have to keep on. That's living.



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I got, like, Diane Keaton's manager, and she was very connected; she had power. And she was like, "Your star is in tears on this comedy. Do you even notice that at all?"



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