Jaqueline

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Jaqueline’s Quotes

“The kind of hope I have doesn’t begin and end with demanding everything go back to the way it was when it can’t, it can’t ever, that’s not how time works.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

tags: 2020, hope, social-commentary, the-past-is-red

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“Seems like someone should have thought of a rule that goes Do not Fuck Your Only Planet to Death Under Any Circumstances. Seems like that should have been Rule Number One.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

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“The nicest room you've ever lived in doesn't have to be clean and white or full of translucent fresh monkfish slices with pea shoots delicately balanced on top. It can just be the place you were happiest and safest from the wind.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

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“Humans are remarkably adaptable, and in some ways we adapt better to the worst-case scenario than to the idea that anything can be better. There is a full cup of fatalism in the recipe for Homo sapiens sapiens, and some of us are very much more comfortable with the world ending than it going on.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Past Is Red

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