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“I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.”

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Catherynne M. Valente is an American novelist known for her works in fantasy and science fiction. Born on May 5, 1979, she has made a name for herself with her imaginative storytelling and poetic prose. Valente's writing frequently delves into themes of love, loss, and the human experience within fantastical settings. more

“Always in the dream, it seemed as if there were a destination: a something--he could not grasp what-that lay beyond the place where the thickness of snow brought the sled to a stop. He was left, upon awakening, with the feeling that he wanted, even somehow needed, to reach the something that waited in the distance. The feeling that it was good. That it was welcoming. That it was significant. But he did not know how to get there.”

Ifs Knows Feelings Dream Wanted Left Know How Needed Lays Distance Awakening Significant Snow Welcome Destination Giver Thickness

Book:The Giver

Source: The Giver

“The word 'however' is like an imp coiled beneath your chair. It induces ink to form words you have not yet seen, and lines to march across the page and overshoot the margin. There are no endings. If you think so you are deceived as to their nature. They are all beginnings. Here is one.”

Ifs Thinking Form Lines Pages Chairs March Ink Deceived Margins

Author:Hilary Mantel

“Once you're alive, you can't ever be dead.”

Alive

Author:Tim O'Brien

“When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else. Blessed are the uneducated, who forget it entirely, and are never conscious of folly or pruriency in the past, of long aimless conversations.”

Long Past Forget Conversation Conscious Blessed Remembered Folly Forget It Uneducated

Author:E. M. Forster

“Sometimes you see these people who are just so—God—so affected by all of it, where ambition has taken precedence over happiness. But when I meet people who really embody this serenity of knowing that they have had an amazing life—James Taylor, Kris Kristofferson, and Ethel Kennedy... They just seem to be effervescent.”

People Sometimes Seems Knowing Taken Ambition Affected Serenity Precedence Amazing Life

Author:Taylor Swift

“The earth and myself are of one mind. The measure of the land and the neasure of our bodies are the same”

Mind Body Earth Land

Author:Chief Joseph

“Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises.”

Justice Madness Noise

Book:H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_

Source: H. P. LOVECRAFT äóñ Ultimate Collection: 120+ Works ALL in One Volume: Complete Novellas & Short Stories, Juvenilia, Poetry, Essays & Collaborations: The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, Dagon, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Outsider, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Cats of Ultharäó_

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