"I perceive that you have a cruel heart,……" — Catherynne M. Valente
"I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade, hissing steam at me."
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237 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more.
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The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
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Temper is a weapon that we hold by the blade.
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There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make…
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To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open…
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Steel True, Blade Straight.
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Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so called scientific knowledge.
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