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Own Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.
- To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the…
- The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the…
- Hats change everything. September knew this with all her being, deep in the place where she knew her own name, and that her mother would…
- It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
- A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is…
- In his own country, Death can be kind.
- She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not sleep; she who swallows the storm, yet…
- Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three faces—the face they…
- Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she…
- 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…
- It's saying no. That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no. That's how you know a baby is starting to turn into a…
More Own Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov