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Way Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost,…
- Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.
- If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where…
- 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…
- Living alone,' November whispered, 'is a skill, like running long distance or programming old computers. You have to know parameters, protocols. You have to learn…
- She was not filled up with the sight of him, the way she had seen her sisters fill up, like silk balloons, like wineskins. Instead,…
- 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…
- 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…
- When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
- Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leucrotta. There is a maiden in a…
- Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.
- I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more…
- 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:…
- There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a…
- 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…
- The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel still sit on the hill, and…
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- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. — Aristotle
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- Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
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- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- I don't miss anything ever. Because to me, missing something is like going backward a little bit. I don't miss being in… — Fred Armisen