Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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A house is a kind of box you put a girl in.
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She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.
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But we had young turnips and mustard greens in our befuddled stomach that day, and these things make bravery.
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She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
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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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The grass and the rivers and the stones and women and horses and more Stars and men and clouds and birds and trees came dancing through the afterbirth of the Mare
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Some switches must be flipped, and some children cannot help turning off to on and on to off, just to see what will happen.
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It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
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You will live as you live in any world...With difficulty, and grief.
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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
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A prophetic world that can never come true.
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It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.
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Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it's only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body's a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions
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No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
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Shadows are where magic comes from. Your dark and dancing self, slipping behind and ahead and around, never quite looking at the sun.
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Coffee is a kind of magic you can drink.
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People are mostly happiest when they think they're just about to get the thing they want most. Before and after, they're all monsters.
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War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.
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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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A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.
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Breaking things heals a great many hurts. This is why children do it so often.
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One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, to a professor as to a curious niece.
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If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.
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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".