When I say forever, ' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light of it, in a green field, his mouth on yours. He means the stretching of that moment. But forever isn't bright; it isn't like that. Forever is cold and hard and final. Catherynne M. Valente
There's always a moment when you start to fall out of love, whether it's with a person or an idea or a cause, even if it's one you only narrate to yourself years after the event: a tiny thing, a wrong word, a false note,...
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Douglas Adams
Knees suddenly weak, she reached for his forearms to stabilize herself. “You came for me.” He beamed, looking for all the world like a selfless, daring hero.“ Don’t sound so surprised.” Dropping the cane, he pulled her into a crushing embrace that tore her away...
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Marissa Meyer
You see the first thing we love is a scene. For love at first sight requires the very sign of its suddenness; and of all things, it is the scene which seems to be seen best for the first time: a curtain parts and what...
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Roland Barthes
I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.
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Ann Voskamp
Enjoy your youth. You'll never be younger thanyou are at this very moment.
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Chad Sugg
More Quotes By Catherynne M. Valente
For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just...
War is not for winning, Masha, " sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.
However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.
