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Things Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds…
- At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much,…
- ... I did not set out to be beloved and just, only strong." 'A King can be better than that," the Prince insisted. "And so…
- 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,…
- 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…
- Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find…
- Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.
- 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…
- She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright and demanding. You…
- Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.
- 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…
- 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…
- That stirring which had fluttered in her on first glimpsing the sea—that stirring landlocked children know so well—moved in her now, with the golden stars…
- It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.
- Chyerti—that’s us, demons and devils, small and big—are compulsive. We obsess. It’s our nature. We turn on a track, around and around; we march in…
- You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.
- Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.
- At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about locking your siblings in towers when they…
- All things are strange which are worth knowing.
- The man who knelt before her would have sprung from her needles, even down the ghostly flecks of silver in his hair. She had not…
- September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if…
- 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…
- You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk are just folk,…
- 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…
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- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle