Catherynne M. Valente Quote

It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

Forgiveness is a transformative act because it asks you to be a more empathetic and compassionate person, thereby making you better than the person you were when you were first hurt.

Trees lose their leaves in blizzards like these.

May we always be burdened with thinking of the suffering of others, for that is what it means to be human.

It is for your own good to love a dare-devil rather than a holy coward. A dare-devil is a unique devil, battling your fears, your pains, conquering your uncertainties, carrying you his arms, and flyin...

Somewhere, somehow, maybe I can find someone who can make my heart beat again.. For everyday that I pine for your love, and for every single time you reject me, I start to die deep inside.. That throb...

I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.

I'm falling apart, one part after another. Falling down on the world like snow. Half of me is already on the ground, watching from below.

We have created a manic world nauseous with the pursuit of material wealth. Many also bear their cross of imagined deprivation, while their fellow human beings remain paralyzed by real poverty. We dro...