War Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

12 War quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

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Valente’s poetic take on war fuses vivid imagination with contemporary concerns, creating a haunting atmosphere. This brief dozen of lines serves as an evocative entry into her unique voice.

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“The war is always going badly.”

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

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Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No…

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I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war…

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War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is…

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Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a…

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Oh, but Masha, can’t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time…

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“They knew all about the war with France from Papa’s magazines. But whenever they tried to imagine what a war was actually…

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“Once upon a time on a small, watery, excitable planet called Earth, in a small, watery, excitable country called Italy, a soft-spoken,…

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“We love WWII because the cause was so obviously just, because you can't be a good person and say you wouldn't fight…

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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.

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“Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.”

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“The cicada lies in the earth for seventeen years. It is warm and dark there, it is soft and wet. Its little legs curl…

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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…

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Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for…

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“September put her hand on the grip of the Rivet Gun. She’d only just gotten it, and she’d promised to take copious notes for…

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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

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“You see, the future is a kind of stew, a soup, a vichyssoise of the present and the past. That's how you get the…

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Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are…

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“There is a place, September, oh, very far from Pandemonium. A place where it is always autumn, where there is always cider and pumpkin…

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“I was happy, the sun was high. I had enough.”

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Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are small. You…

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