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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 that’s the truth.

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• I believe we have an utterly unique specimen on our hands: a child who listens.

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• A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

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• I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

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• Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.

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• A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

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• You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.

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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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• Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.

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• We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

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• It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

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• Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

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• Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

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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 maps are silly.

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• I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

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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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