Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Breaking things heals a great many hurts. This is why children do it so often.
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He’ll never be good if he can’t choose to be nasty. It’s the choice that makes the good.
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It tasted like a shade of white near blue; it tasted like the idea of pearls; it tasted like a memory nearly grasped but lost at the last moment.
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It’s a funny thing. You go your whole life thinking you’re the protagonist, but really, you’re just backstory.
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Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater.
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Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?
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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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... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
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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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Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. “I have come for the girl in the window,” he said, and his eyes filled with tears.
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It is important to announce your intentions at top volume, she thought, or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them.
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It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on any account, but some Mysteries even they must honor.
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The nearness of him crushed her, like being held by the sun.
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"You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".
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Coffee is a kind of magic you can drink.
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You're grown - crooked and backbent, but grown - and it's time to stop hanging your heart on your mother.
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Perhaps, if you take a long enough view, we are all stronger than our goblins.
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A house is a kind of box you put a girl in.
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She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.
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Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.
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A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.
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Bad luck relies absolutely on perfect timing
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Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing.
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Men die. It's practically what they're for.