"How much better if life were more like……" — Catherynne M. Valente
"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 way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be."
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237 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
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