Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

Catherynne M. Valente

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• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Well
  • Open
  • Desperation

• No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Book
  • Hell
  • Sales

• Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Again
  • Cheese
  • Pasta

• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

  

  Sally Field
  • Beautiful
  • Never
  • Been

• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Conversation

• Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Money
  • War
  • Advice

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • War
  • Success
  • Greatness

• In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Energy
  • Permanent
  • Accurate

• We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Hope
  • Player
  • Baseball

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• Courage is doing what you are afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you are scared.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Courage
  • Doing
  • Afraid

• I'm really lucky, because I've been able to go places and meet people you can only dream of.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • People
  • Dream
  • Lucky

• They say Mars absolves the warrior from the crimes of war, but those who were not the warriors, those for whom the war was said to be fought, even though they never wanted it to be fought, who absolves them?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • War
  • Warrior

• I heard them cry - the peacocks. Was it a cry against the twilight Or against the leaves themselves Turning in the wind, Turning as the flames Turned in the fire, Turning as the tails of the peacocks Turned in the loud fire, Loud as the hemlocks Full of the cry of the peacocks? Or was it a cry against the hemlocks?

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Fire
  • Wind
  • Twilight

• The only solution to the issue of human rights is oblivion.

  

  Augusto Pinochet

• Republicans are people who, if you were drowning 50 feet from shore, would throw you a 25-foot rope and tell you to swim the other 25 feet because it would be good for your character. Democrats would throw you a hundred-foot rope and then walk away looking for other good deeds to do.

  

  S. I. Hayakawa
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• I began visiting Lima's prisons back in 2007, when my first novel, 'Lost City Radio,' was published in Peru.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Lost
  • City
  • Radio

• My children have gone to Catholic school... Part of their whole education is talking about the inner life and looking at your life, even though you're only 15 or 16 - thinking about your mortality, thinking about the value of your life, thinking about your obligations.

  

  Alice McDermott
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Children

• I don't know if I will be acting all my life, honestly.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Life

• But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Children
  • Lost
  • Find