"Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more."

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Catherynne M. Valente

#Silence Quotes #Wish Quotes #Littles Quotes

“The door swung open and Kate walked in. Her jeans and T-shirt were splattered with blood and she was carrying a severed vampire head. The T-shirt has a smiley face on it.”
“The media has outright lied on me. They reported that I called myself Osama's [Bin Laden] 'sex slave,' apparently unaware that sex slaves aren't allowed to look their master in the eye, write poetry with him or go on hunting excursions with him.”
“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”

Source : John Edward Williams (1965). “Stoner: A Novel”
“The life you had is nothing. It is the life you have that is important.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“'Monsieur,' Madame d'Arestel, Superior of the convent of the Visitation at Belley, once said to me more than fifty years ago, 'whenever you want to have a really good cup of chocolate, make it the day before, in a porcelain coffeepot, and let it set. The night's rest will concentrate it and give it a velvety quality which will make it better. Our good God cannot possibly take offense at this little refinement, since he himself is everything that is most perfect.'”
“There are two kinds of second class men in business. There is the man who puts money first and service second. There is the man who puts service first and money second, who never has any money. The first class man in business is the man who is made up out of rolling the other two kinds into one man and working them together.”

Source : Gerald Stanley Lee (1919). “The House of Twenty Seven Gardens”
“I've never cooked. I can't do much more in the kitchen than make a cup of tea and some toast.”

Source : Ethel Merman, George Eells (1979). “Merman: an autobiography”, Berkley Pub Group
“In fact, if we cut 50 percent of the liver out, it'll be back in two weeks.”

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