"Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in……" — Catherynne M. Valente
"Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests."
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237 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
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I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to.…
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Someone ought to write a novel about me,
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These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive…
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After love, no one is what they were before.
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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.
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Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.
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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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All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
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We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine…
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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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I immediately cotton on to the fact that intelligence thus lightly used, and one-upmanshipishly displayed, is a birthmark giving me…
— Hal Porter
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I have a birthmark on the inside of my left knee that resembles an upside-down sea horse.
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Talent is like a birthmark - it's a gift and no credit nor fault to those who wear them.
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I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no…
— Justina Chen
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They wordlessly excused each other for not loving each other as much as they had planned to. There were empty…
— Miranda July
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People say you're born innocent, but it's not true. You inherit all kinds of things that you can do nothing…
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Orion brightened. "I have an idea." "Yes?" said Foaly, daring to hope that a spark of Artemis remained. "Why don't…
— Eoin Colfer
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Orion:"Oh, how I pray that dragon will turn 'round so that I may smite it." Foaly: "Smite it with what?…
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Why no aggressive action?" Foaly squirmed in a harness built for two-legged creatures. "Oh yes, why no aggressive action? How…
— Eoin Colfer
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It seems like suffering's the only time we can see what's essential. If peace ever comes back I'm making a…
— John Marsden
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His words were still clear in her mind from that first meeting. "Whoever eats this will love you." She looked…
— Holly Black
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That’s an unfortunate place for a birthmark,” I said, more than a little unnerved that it was so similarly positioned…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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