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Book Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who…
- I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening,…
- She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she…
- Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must…
- How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the…
- I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
- A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
- I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became of Princesses, as…
- 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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