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Heart Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- I am freedom and I will eat your heart
- You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.
- It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to…
- Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons and magazines and wedding rings. They must sweep…
- All children are heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb tall trees and say shocking things and leap…
- It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
- I think that one morning, the Papess woke in her tower, and her blankets were so warm, and the sun was so golden, she could…
- Her heart ached as though a knife had quietly slipped between her ribs.
- I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.
- I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through which I see…
- 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…
- You and I, being grown-up and having lost our hearts at least twice or thrice along the way, might shut our eyes and cry out:…
- 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'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are idiots. They're big and squishy and full of…
- Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they must without even truly knowing…
- Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end…
- September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel badly for them, and next thing you…
- You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like the slender white heart in the center of…
- 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.
- For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is…
- For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and…
- Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for gently…
- But her heart was so cold that she could hold ice in her mouth and it would never melt.
- Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk…
- This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the…
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- A high heart ought to bear calamities and not flee them, since in bearing them appears the grandeur of the mind and… — Pietro Aretino
- With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of… — Pietro Aretino
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart. — Francis of Assisi
- It is not the Head but the Heart that is the Seat of Atheism. — Mary Astell
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me… — Chinua Achebe
- Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can… — Margaret Atwood
- If it's all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it's all entertainment, you read it… — Margaret Atwood
- Life is too short to spend hoping that the perfectly arched eyebrow or hottest new lip shade will mask an ugly heart. — Kevyn Aucoin