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The Changeling QUOTES

The Changeling QUOTES

1 " What had he been worrying about twenty minutes earlier? Fuckign witches? Why worry over witches when the internet could conjure so much worse. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

2 " Unsupervised reading is a blessing for a certain kind of child "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

3 " A bad fairy tale has some simple goddamn moral. A great fairy tale tells the truth. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

4 " History isn’t a tale told once, it’s a series of revisions. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

5 " Do you know how much harm ‘happily ever after’ has done to mankind? I wish they said something else at the end of those stories instead. ‘They tried to be happy.’ Or ‘Eternal happiness is a fruitless pursuit. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

6 " In folktales a vampire couldn’t enter your home unless you invited him in. Without your consent the beast could never cross your threshold. Well, what do you think your computer is? Your phone? You live inside those devices so those devices are your homes. But at least a home, a physical building, has a door you can shut, windows you can latch. Technology has no locked doors. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

7 " Women only like jerks.’ That’s the mantra of dudes who have made themselves undateable but aren’t willing to take the blame. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

8 " A thought, an idea, a shared dream; parenthood is a story two people start telling together. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

9 " Posting online is like leaving your front door open and telling any creature of the night it can enter. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

10 " To believe in only the practical, the rational, the realistic was a kind of glamour as well. But he couldn't enjoy the illusion of order anymore. Monsters aren't real until you meet one. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

11 " And they lived happily ever after,” Apollo whispered. Emma leaned into him. “Today,” she said. “And they lived happily today.” “Is that enough?” he asked, looking at Brian, looking at her. “That’s everything, my love. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

12 " Even if you choose to ignore the truth, the truth still changes you. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

13 " If our relationships are made of many small lies, they become something larger, a prison of falsehoods. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

14 " Every human being is a series of stories; it’s nice when someone wants to hear a new one. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

15 " They scolded working mothers who were damaging their poor kids by their need to make a living. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

16 " People call us witches,” Cal said quickly. She grabbed Apollo’s hand. “But maybe what they’re really saying is that we were women who did things that seemed impossible. You remember those old stories about mothers who could lift cars when their kids were trapped underneath? I think of it like that. When you have to save the one you love, you will become someone else, something else. You will transform. The only real magic is the things we’ll do for the ones we love. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

17 " All those tales were told right here, one after the next, each informing the one that came after. History isn't a tale told once, it's a series of revisions. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

18 " When you have to save the one you love, you will become someone else, something else. You will transform. The only real magic is the things we’ll done for the ones we love. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

19 " No one wants to learn their history,” Jorgen said firmly. “Not all of it. We want our parents to provide but don’t want to know what they had to sacrifice to do it. No nation was ever built with kindness. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling

20 " Exactly how many men have you killed here?” Apollo said. “We’re like the police,” Cal said. “We don’t track those numbers. "

― Victor LaValle , The Changeling