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Me Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- Someone ought to write a novel about me,
- I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want…
- ..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it is, and there…
- ...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
- I wouldn't even consider it if I were you. But then if I were you, I would not be me, and if I were not…
- 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 are…
- Everyone is afraid of you and when folk are afraid of a person it usually means the person is cruel in some way, and I…
- I have terrible nightmares, you know. Every night when I come home from a long day’s dying, I take off my skin and lay it…
- I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are…
- True names,” said September wonderingly. “These are all true names. Like, when your parents call you to dinner and you don’t come and they call…
- Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as…
- Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn’t; violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes; pink…
- Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty pinprick of a…
- I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me.
- It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate,…
- You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat.…
- 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…
- It’s been me all along,” said September slowly. “Me who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That to wake up…
- I still think of myself as a house. Ravan tried to fix this problem of self-image, as he called it. To teach me to phrase…
- Koschei, Koschei,” she whispered. “What would I have been if I had never seen the birds? I am no one; I am nothing. I am…
- Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.
- I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
- Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was doing, and should…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale