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“ We love WWII because the cause was so obviously just, because you can't be a good person and say you wouldn't fight against an evil like that. It was so black and white on our side, and on our side so few died. (Our side meaning the lantern-jawed John Wayne Greatest Generation constantly canonized soldiers who strode in late to the graveyard that was Europe. Compared to Jewish, Russian, Roma, and other casualties, our losses were minimal.) We felt so strong. In some ways I think we're always trying to recapture that feeling of being a country of superheroes. With every war we invoke that one, we hope it will be that good. -from her blog ”

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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