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All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
Catherynne M. Valente
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Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
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An equation is a prophecy that always comes true.
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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 than they ought, only for loving not enough.
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...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
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All things are strange which are worth knowing.
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Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
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It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
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I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life of a man? Where do I live, in the memory of God?
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Well, very splendid and very frightening. But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.
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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
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... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
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Why should he be spared?' 'Someone ought to be.' And it will not be me. I have survived, but I have not been spared.
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Men die. It's practically what they're for.
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Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to.
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Funny how question contains the word quest inside it, as though any small question asked is a journey through briars.
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I burn, I freeze I am never warm. I am rigid I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
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First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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Death hath no dominion.
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