All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.
– Catherynne M Valente
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- Magic has a logic, like algebra. Once you get to know it, it’s easy. If this, then that. You write with a pencil, you don’t make frog soup with it. – Catherynne M Valente
- A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic. – Catherynne M Valente
- Music has more rules than math or magic and it’s twice as dangerous as both or either. – Catherynne M Valente
- Whatever your territory is does not matter, what matters is the amount of time you are ready to invest into it to become the king of that territory. – Sunday Adelaja
- Magic is only unexplained science. Science is explained magic. When I study science, I study magic. When I study magic, I study science. – C JoyBell C
- Know your magic, trust your magic, use your magic and know that you are a manifestation of life’s magic. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
- The purpose of the Sisterhood of Librarians is to keep the secret of creative juice and keep the idea of libraries alive. – SA Tawks
- Free election of masters does not abolish the masters or the slaves. – Herbert Marcuse
- Besides, that MBA is a Masters of Business Administration, not a Masters of Business Leadership. – Dave Anderson
- The best master is the one who raises many more masters and much more important than this, who creates masters even much better than himself! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters. – Dan Simmons
- It no longer matters who consider themselves the masters of events. Events no longer obey their masters. – Dan Simmons
- I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? – Catherynne M Valente
- So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar. – Catherynne M Valente
- We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about. – Catherynne M Valente
- Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup. – Catherynne M Valente
- A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history. – Catherynne M Valente
- I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.Nothing to brag on,but enough for you, and all your friends, too. – Catherynne M Valente
- Dreams keep the heart alive. – Catherynne M Valente
- A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world. – Catherynne M Valente
- I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston. – Catherynne M Valente
- I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not. – Catherynne M Valente
- When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can’t make it run the other way again. – Catherynne M Valente
- there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other. – Catherynne M Valente
- you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy. – Catherynne M Valente
- We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly. – Catherynne M Valente
- The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off. – Catherynne M Valente
- The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces-” those, I think, are the sensations of grief. – Catherynne M Valente
- Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you. – Catherynne M Valente
- Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad. – Catherynne M Valente
- Anything is a poem if you say it often enough. – Catherynne M Valente
- But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs. – Catherynne M Valente
- Don’t worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from? – Catherynne M Valente
- She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice. – Catherynne M Valente
- It’s Survival of Them Who’s Best at Nicking Things, girl! – Catherynne M Valente
- Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life! – Catherynne M Valente
- A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it. – Catherynne M Valente
- Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. – Catherynne M Valente
- We are halves, but we make an infinite whole. – Catherynne M Valente