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• You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.

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• Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

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• Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.

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• It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.

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• If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.

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• Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.

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• You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.

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• Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.

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• A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.

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• God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.

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• Family is a transitive property.

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• Love is the Turing test,… It is how we check for life.

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• But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.

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• When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can’t make it run the other way again.

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• In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.

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• Love rarely waits for permission.

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• The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

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• Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.

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• All things are strange which are worth knowing.

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• No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.

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Catherynne M. Valente (35)

Birth:	5th May, 1979
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Poet, Writer

About

Catherynne M. Valente was born in Seattle, Washington. She is an American novelist, poet and writer. For her speculative fiction novels she has won the annual James Tiptree, Andre Norton, and Mythopoeic Fantasy Awards. Her 2009 book, Palimpsest, won the Lambda Award for GLBT Science Fiction or Fantasy. Her two-volume series The Orphan's Tales won the 2008 Mythopoeic Award, and its first volume, The Orphan's Tales: In the Night Garden won the 2006 James Tiptree, Jr. Award, was nominated for the 2007 World Fantasy Award.

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