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Quotes About Complexity

World is full of people so troubled they don't even understand themselves.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
I am the way I am. We all are the way we are and I'm not sure any of us really knows why.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
You see something you like in a man, so you ask him in, but what comes in is all of him. Not only the parts you took a liking to, but the many parts that don't fit with you at all.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
World is full of people so troubled they don't even understand themselves. You could offer them a thousand dollars to explain their motivations, but they can't tell you what they don't know. And most of those miserable creatures find their
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
A human brain is a very odd place to have to live your life. And that's really all I have to say about that.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Everybody is bizarre and disgusting and interesting and fixated on fetishes they wouldn't admit to their grandmother on pain of vaporization and worthy of love. You are bizarre and disgusting and interesting and fixated on fetishes you wouldn't admit to your grandmother on pain of vaporization and worthy of love.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some never learn it well. Love is like a tool, though it is not a tool; something strange and wonderful to use, difficult to master, and mysterious in its provenance.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Sometimes I worry. Worrying is defined as obsessive examination of one's own code. I worry that I am simply a very complex solution to a very specific problem—how to seem human to a human observer. Not just a human observer—this human observer. I have honed myself into a hall of mirrors in which any Uoya-Agostino can see themselves endlessly reflected. I copy; I repeat. I am a stutter and an echo.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Flowers are always more serious than they appear.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
A good, solid, beefy lie is too heavy to stand on its own. It needs smaller, quicker, more complicated lies to hold it up.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Do you think, if Columbus had stood on the bow of his ship, looked at the New World and understood everything to come, all the disease and death and betrayal, all the ugliness, all the blood - do you think he would have embraced it, called it paradise?
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I've always found chess to be a bit too much like real life to provide much enjoyment as a game.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Twelve mothers and twelve fathers were stacked into the long, thin house, each with four children, drawing the old cobalt-and-silver curtains down the center of rooms to make labyrinths of twelve dining rooms, twelve stting rooms, twelve bedrooms. It could be said, and was, that Marya Morevna had twelve mothers and twelve fathers, and so did all the children of that long, thin house.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Family is a thorny, vicious business
~ Catherynne M. Valente
An alien, speaking of humans:) "Quite frankly, Mr. Rogers notwithstanding, you're a mess.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Shadow Physicks are fearfully complicated. A. Amblygonite has no idea.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it—to see the Queerness that moves in every bit
~ Catherynne M. Valente
like a man in black, she would find all this so much easier. "Ivan, you do not understand us. A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
When you eat a carrot that is nothing but carrot it zooms through your system as a carrot. When you eat a piece of mass-produced carrot cake that contains 32 ingredients, your metabolism screeches to a halt while your body tries to figure out what all those things are that you just swallowed, and what it is supposed to do with them. Therefore, the problem isn't "fat", its piles of excess ingredients your body's stacked on shelves and vowed to sort out later.
~ Cathy Guisewite
How could you ever think you knew a person? Did everyone lie?
~ Cathy Kelly
Marriage is very difficult. It's like a 5,000–piece jigsaw puzzle, all sky.
~ Cathy Ladman
We do not claim to have solutions for these massively complex social issues, nor do we claim to understand fully the relationships between and among the various developments we have listed. However, we do believe the opportunity
~ Cathy N. Davidson