Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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You and I, we're no good at telling a story straight. It won't come off right. Like a dog reciting a sonnet. Impressive, but how much better to let him howl?
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And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.
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You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.
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Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That's the only way to live in the awful old ocean.
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A map shows maybes.
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You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it - to see the Queerness that moves in every bit
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Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.
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There is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other.
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What’s the difference between being dead and having a boyfriend? Death sticks around.
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...what maiden knows how the world is skewed to spare any testing of her virtue?
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Who am i, really? What does any of it mean? i'm so afraid someday everyone will see that i'm just an imposter, a fake, among all the real and gorgeous godheads.
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She didn't like to say things flatly, but sometimes it is the perfect antidote to someone trying to convince you the noose in their hand is a lovely silk ribbon for your hair.
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Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.
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Except that her joints ached and her head hurt and it tasted like a vorcha had shit in her mouth.
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Time is no one's friend - time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.
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He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.
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That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and goes out last in the morning. Love keeps the light on all night.
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I suppose if you have ten children one of them might go into government, which is the same as losing a child really.
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Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself.
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SF raised me, and I think it did a damn fine job. It at least removed a lot of potential sources of anxiety.
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Mug your destiny in an alley and punch it until it gives you what you want
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Conservatism is not an attractive trait.
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And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.
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And there’s nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of candy. Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Newitz are the kindest ladies you’ll ever meet, and they have nips of whiskey in their tea like cowboys.