Catherynne M. Valente Quotes

But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

Catherynne M. Valente

• Children
• Lost
• Find
• Each Other

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.

  

  Becky G
  • Up
  • Different
  • Girl

• Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Open
  • Well
  • Desperation

• No matter how many awards you've won or how many sales you've got, come the next book it's still a blank sheet of paper and you're still panicking like hell that you've got nothing new to say.

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Book
  • Hell
  • Sales

• I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.

  

  Wale
  • America
  • Man
  • Black

• Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Again
  • Cheese
  • Pasta

• I have always believed that life is too short for rows and disagreements. Even if I think I'm right, I would prefer to apologize and remain friends rather than win and be an enemy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Enemy

• I have never been beautiful in cliche terms.

  

  Sally Field
  • Beautiful
  • Never
  • Been

• Let me be the first to say I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that 'no' meant 'no,' but that's it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Remember
  • Kid
  • Conversation

• Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Money
  • War
  • Advice

• My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Know
  • Me
  • Weekend

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• Success in war underpins the claims to greatness of many presidents.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
  • War
  • Success
  • Greatness

• In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Energy
  • Permanent
  • Accurate

• We fought like heck for every player and every advantage, but we knew we were part of something bigger than ourselves. To me, that is what baseball is all about. I hope it is always what baseball is all about.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Hope
  • Player
  • Baseball

• An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • American
  • Alone
  • Dark

• In the one defence, briefly, we accept responsibility but deny that it was bad: in the other, we admit that it was bad but don't accept full, or even any, responsibility.

  

  J. L. Austin
  • Bad
  • Responsibility
  • Admit

• Fashion is a completely international business.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Business
  • Fashion

• Ever since I was 10 years old doing jiu-jitsu, I've done well against the tall guys.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Done
  • Doing
  • Old

• We play a hip-hop song and suddenly 25 people on the left jump up and put their hands in the air; then you play Lost Cause and they're like, I don't know about this one.

  

  Beck
  • People
  • Up
  • Song

• I take a sun bath and listen to the hours, formulating, and disintegrating under the pines, and smell the resiny hardihood of the high noon hours. The world is lost in a blue haze of distances, and the immediate sleeps in a thin and finite sun.

  

  Zelda Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • World
  • High

• You can't help parts of yourself leaking into other characters.

  

  Joanna Trollope
  • Help

• I guess you could say I devoted myself so strongly to my music that for awhile I forgot about my family. But I only get one set of parents, and I think I forgot about that for a little while.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • Family
  • Parents

• The strong and virtuous admit no destiny.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Strong
  • Destiny
  • Virtuous

• But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Children
  • Lost
  • Find