Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I belong in the refrigerator. Because the truth is, I'm just food for a superhero. He'll eat up my death and get the energy he needs to become a legend.
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She’s an Italian flag in occupied territory, and I fall for her like Paris.
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She drank like a Czar and sang like a broken squeezebox and danced like the Sugarplum Fairy cutting loose at last
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I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey. Nothing to brag on, but enough for you, and all your friends, too.
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Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.
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War must always be done out of sight, or it shocks people and they stop immediately.
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If one did not have at least a little luck, one would never survive childhood. But luck can be spent, like money; and lost, like a memory; and wasted, like a life.
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It's easier to use somebody if you can think of them as mute and dumb and made for your pleasure.
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Accuracy is next to godliness.
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You are a Witch. I am a Prince. In all the books, where there is a Witch and a Prince there is a way.
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No one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough
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I still want to kiss you. To feel the life in you seize on the life in me. Raw and fresh and new.
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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
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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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Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.
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A stepmother is like a bullet you can't dig out. She fires true and she fires hot and she fires so quick that her metal hits your body before you even know there's a fight on.
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Every cat knows how to keep his owner feeding them: You may scratch and bite ninety-nine times, but the hundredth time, you must leap into a lap and press your nose to their nose. Rules are for dogs.
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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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I’ll put this in words you can understand: humans are hideous, pain-guzzling, pollution-spouting space monsters who might threaten our way of life.
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Of late, she had felt coldness in herself, and though she feared it, she loved it too, for it made her strong.
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A prophetic world that can never come true.
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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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In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.
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The colours of the glass throw blue and green onto her wet cheeks. The sea wind picks up her hair violet electrics snap and sparkle between the strands.