Geography Quote by Catherynne M. Valente Download Open image ““Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.”” — Catherynne M. Valente ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Geography
“The geography of the thing wasn’t the point; it didn’t matter where they were: there was still too much space between them.” — Jennifer E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Of course, any map of the Place would be shocking to anyone with any understanding of geography. As you can see, this is a… — Elizabeth Knox Copy Share Image
“Strange, awkwardly written, and even shocking, it broke new ground in more than geographical and observational terms.” — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
“They broke the way a man dismantling a mine broke the second his geography exploded.” — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
“one can discourage too much history in one's family, but one cannot always prevent geography.” — Saki Copy Share Image
“Peaks and valleys. That's what life comes down to, in the end. Fucking geography.” — Laura Zigman Copy Share Image
“I could tell I was at the gateway of a region half-bewitched through the piling-up of unbroken time-accumulations; a region where old, strange things… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
“Location, location, location, the realtors say. Geography is destiny, respond the historians. War” — Mohsin Hamid Copy Share Image
“Earth or Fillory, did it even matter? What was the huge conundrum? Everywhere you looked there was so much richness, you could never exhaust… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The cicada lies in the earth for seventeen years. It is warm and dark there, it is soft and wet. Its little legs curl underneath it, and twitch only once in a little while. What does the cicada dream when it is folded into the soil? What visions travel through it, like snow flying fast? Its dreams are lightless and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for gently and given gladly. It had happened so fast and sharp it had taken her breath. Perhaps she had done it wrong, somehow. She put the kiss away firmly to think about later. Instead, she smiled… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
“September put her hand on the grip of the Rivet Gun. She’d only just gotten it, and she’d promised to take copious notes for Belinda Cabbage, which probably did not mean handing it over to the first person who asked and taking notes on what she got for it. But more than that, she wanted it with her. It had… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You see, the future is a kind of stew, a soup, a vichyssoise of the present and the past. That's how you get the future: You mix up everything you did today with everything you did yesterday and all the days before and everything everyone you ever met did and anyone they ever met, too. And salt and lizard and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I'd had a French education for three years, my father being in the army. From 9 to 12, I went to French school. I've… — Charlotte Rampling Copy Share Image
Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of a country… — Claude Bernard Copy Share Image
The fake Zionist regime will disappear from the landscape of geography. — Ali Khamenei Copy Share Image
Aimee Parkison offers a distinct new voice to contemporary fiction. Her seductive stories explore childhood as a realm of sorrows, and reveal the afflictions… — Carol Anshaw Copy Share Image
The border is varied depending on the geography, depending on the specific venue, and depending on the conduct of individuals around it. We don't… — Alejandro Mayorkas Copy Share Image
You want a lesson? I'll give you a lesson. How about a geography lesson? My father's from Puerto Rico. My mother's from El Salvador.… — Jennifer Esposito Copy Share Image
A lot of the reason I left New York, in addition to being so broke, was that I just felt I was becoming provincial in that way that only New Yorkers are. My points of reference were really insular. They were insular in that fantastic New York way, but they didn't go much beyond that. I didn't have any sense… — Meghan Daum Copy Share
Because everybody is so ADD and everybody is trying to move the plot so fast, there's very little sense of geography in movies anymore.… — Ti West Copy Share Image
The great thing about cinema is that it's a great binder. It brings people from across the world together, often erasing the lines between… — Priyanka Chopra Copy Share Image
I like geography best, he said, because your mountains & rivers know the secret. Pay no attention to boundaries. — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
