Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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It's not nihilism is there's really no point to anything.
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Wife sounded like something exciting, something daring, something a bit scoundrelly, like pirate or bandit. And they were bandits, of course.
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But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be plumped up again - after all, it was only a bit thirsty for something to do.
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The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
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...For grace may only be found briefly, and always in the midst of madness.
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When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.
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We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.
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On the other side of the jelly-glass docking hatch they could see, improbably, impossibly, a hyperactive red panda jumping up and down and waving his paws at them.
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Chicago at the time owned a lake the size of a sea, several advertising firms, at least six tribes of marauding criminals, healthy herds of sailors grazing free, the first Ferris wheel in all the world, and more wind than it could care for.
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Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.
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All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.
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I know real dirt looks nothing like this. Nothing like soft blood flecked with black bone.
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I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.
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A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
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We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.
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September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.
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Accuracy is next to godliness.
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Everything looks like magic when you don’t understand it.
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Byron kissed her gloved hand as they stepped lightly round one another. He could dance like rivers could run. No one had ever kissed her hand before. Emily felt like she was going to throw up and like she was flying all at once.
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Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles - and they are always surprised when suddenly the castle becomes real, and the iron gate grinds shut.
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Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.
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Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.
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War must always be done out of sight, or it shocks people and they stop immediately.
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She was a vengeful goddess and her will was absolute.