Catherynne M. Valente Quote Explained: The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

Novelist

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

- Catherynne M. Valente

Novelist

Hurt

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You’re not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You’re only playing.

- Catherynne M. Valente

Novelist

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You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run – and always faster than you think.

- Catherynne M. Valente

Novelist

Running

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The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.

- Catherynne M. Valente

Novelist

Dark
Worst

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I savor bitterness – it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

- Catherynne M. Valente

Novelist

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She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

- Catherynne M. Valente

Novelist

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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

- Catherynne M. Valente

Novelist

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

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

You’re not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You’re only playing.

You can never know how your clock runs. But it does run – and always faster than you think.

The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.

I savor bitterness – it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.

The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.

The flatterer does not think highly enough of himself or of others. Explain

Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence. Explain

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

There was a time when the young of many clans joined together to make new clans.

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

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