Genevieve Valentine Quotes

#1. I will always have a soft spot for 'East of the Sun, West of the Moon,' which I discovered just at the age when I was beginning to enjoy the darkness in fairy tales but still wanted a story where the good guys win.

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#2. The girls were wild for dancing, and nothing else. No hearts beat underneath those thin, bright dresses. They laughed like glass.

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#3. Then she set it aside.
(She set everything aside. There was some hollow place inside her that few and grew.)

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#4. Then you are the bird, and the bird, and the bird.

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#5. They must not understand why he's really asking, I think; they must none of them have sisters.

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#6. He was like a song she'd heard years back, played again in a quiet room; there was no telling if the song was any good, or if she only remembered it fondly because of the person she'd been long ago, when she heard it first.

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#7. He watched her like he had come home after a long absence and had missed her most of all.

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#8. It frightened her how deep her sobs could reach, as if someone was pulling sorrow from her bones.

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#9. I felt sorry for her. Insects were easy to love. It's always easier to find a thing and love it without hoping for a reason.

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#10. This is what happens when you take a step: you are moving closer to what you want.

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#11. She falls in love every night for a while. Then she learns that if you're quiet, they talk, and you can find something to dislike about anyone.

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#12. You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.

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#13. Even Ayar's back tells the right time twice a day, and it was my turn to be right.

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#14. The ways in which language changes never ceases to interest me.

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#15. It was for Alec she made the wings.

It was the only gift she ever gave him; it was the only gift she has ever given to someone without a new name attached, the only gift she's ever given without killing someone first.

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#16. Lou had been a blur of red in Jo's memories of this
room, the bright spot of color in the endless waiting white.

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#17. With so many trapped in the upper floors, it hardly surprised Jo how often they fought, or how fiercely. When you didn't have one room to yourself in the whole world, you laid claim to every inch of whatever you could.

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#18. No need to worry about loving one when all of them would be back tomorrow night.

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