Catherynne M. Valente said this quote

“ You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece. ”

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For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.

~ Catherynne M. Valente

However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.

~ Catherynne M. Valente