"Iâ€™m a monster,â€ said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. â€œEveryone says so.â€ The Minotaur glanced up at her. â€œSo are we all, dear,â€ said the Minotaur kindly. â€œThe thing to decide is what kind of monster to be. The kind who builds towns or the kind who breaks them."

-- Catherynne M. Valente

#Shadow Quotes #Monsters Quotes #Towns Quotes

“Rebellions of the belly are the worst.”
“I think labels for the most part want to sign new discoveries so that that label alone is seen to be responsible for the rise of the artist. Not many labels want bands who have already made their mark, because their success is usually attributed to some other label somewhere else at another time.”
“Playing with my grandfather, grandmother and my parents, I came to music pretty naturally.”
“If you keep saying it the way it really is, eventually your word is law in the universe.”
“Walking also enables us to watch a hole unfold in front of us. To walk a course is analogous to driving a long distance rather than flying. While driving, we see the country instead of racing over it. There's a human scale that flying cannot offer.”
“Widows are far better than brides. They don't tell, they won't yell, they don't swell, they rarely smell, and they're grateful as hell.”
“[Our family is] a wonderfully messy arrangement, in which relationships overlap, underlie, support, and oppose one another. It didn't always come together easily nor does it always stay together easily. It's known very good times and very bad ones. It has held together, often out of shared memories and hopes, sometimes out of the lure of my sisters' cooking, and sometimes out of sheer stubbornness. And like the world itself, our family is renewed by each baby.”
“Throughout the whole Stroll album, I'm breaking barriers. Whether I'm doing acoustic hip-hop, singing my own hooks or singing my own verses... There's always going to be people who don't like it, cause they're stuck in their ways, or they just don't like you in general... but it's been good.”

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