Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.
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I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.
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Everything good in the world has feathers and wings and claws.
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If she was in a teaching mood she wasn't in a hitting mood. Like sneezing and keeping your eyes open, Mrs. H couldn't do both at once.
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I know real dirt looks nothing like this. Nothing like soft blood flecked with black bone.
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Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?
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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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In his own country, Death can be kind. But of an end
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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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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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These words were small and they only meant what they said, not how they felt before he said them. He nearly wept with the frustration of it.
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Falling in love is embarrassing. It is not hardcore. It is not part of the scene.
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Firebirds are such frustating quarry. One minute it's all fiery tail feathers and red talons and the next, nothing but ash and a sore seat.
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You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.
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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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Did I not come to you on my knees with a kingdom in my hand?
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Everything looks like magic when you don’t understand it.
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If you have ever seen a falling star, you have seen a Changeling arriving.
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A Sibyl is a door shaped like a girl.
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Accuracy is next to godliness.
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Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.
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But I am a sly and wicked narrator. If there is a secret to be plumbed for your benefit, Dear Reader, I shall strap on a head-lamp and a pick-ax and have at it.
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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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... 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.