Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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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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No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story.
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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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... for my eeries, anything. Anything, forever, always.
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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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Surely you didn't think deathless meant dickless.
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First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds and the length of an hour.
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Did everything that had magic have teeth?
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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 ring don’t make a bride, that’s all.
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Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.
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It is not so easy to always remember who you are.
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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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She'd thought she left feeling helpless behind long ago - only we never leave helpless behind. It is a country in which we all hold passports.
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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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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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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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No one is now what they were before the war. There’s just no getting any of it back.
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People who share a secret share a heart.
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A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
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Opium ain’t got nothing on the promise of tomorrow turning up better than today. Snow
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Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.
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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.