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Us Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- Do you know, we're right underneath Springtime Parish? This place is the opposite of springtime. Everything past prime, boarded up for the season. Just above…
- Most of them... most of us never figure it out. Bad dream, they think, or good one. Funny rash, never really goes away, but Doc…
- 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,…
- When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.
- The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for…
- 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…
- However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It is easy to…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
- For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough for people to play in our worlds…
More Us Quotes
- Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really… — 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
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- We want the Israelis to leave. They want to leave - so let us let them leave. — Mahmoud Abbas
- Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us! — Richard Bach
- All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering. — Karen Armstrong