Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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It was at thirteen years old that Marya Morevna learned how to keep a secret, and that secrets are jealous things, permitting no fraternization.
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Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
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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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Snow White swallows that like a sword. She lets the hammer click back into place. Everything in her that's not nailed down is shaking loose.
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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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All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
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War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately.
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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
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Your past’s a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in a box where it can’t hurt anyone.
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The best way to be the kind of girl you want to be is to do what that girl would do.
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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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Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater.
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Doors opened at seven, the show started at eight. In pubs and clubs and house parties across the galaxy, the viewers at home were drunk by six.
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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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Patience is always the last ingredient in any spell, the last part in any machine, what ever your original blue prints say.
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If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
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Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.
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A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whether it has been taught to sit up or to lie down, to speak or to beg, to roll over or to sound alarms, to guard or to attack, to find or to stay
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Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing.
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Rich girls aren’t criminals, don’t you know? They’re just troubled, poor things.
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He does everything a Marshal does but twice as hard, twice as dirty, and without the soft and cushioning arms of the government to wipe his tears.
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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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The Glasshobs built it to keep an eye on the stars, who have a tendency to run off on adventures and forget about how much we down-below folks need to navigate and cast horoscopes and meet lovers on balconies.
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But we had young turnips and mustard greens in our befuddled stomach that day, and these things make bravery.