Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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Surely you didn't think deathless meant dickless.
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Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you.
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Wouldn't you like to have comrades?' But she would not like that. She wanted only to rest and to read her old, rain-swollen books, turning the pages carefully, so carefully.
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All things built with tax money are beautiful: so we must think or go mad.
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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
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People who share a secret share a heart.
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It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.
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The Green Wind frowned into his brambly beard. “All little girls are terrible,” he admitted finally, “but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat."
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No one cared who they'd been before, or even who they were now. Sometimes it felt like they lived at the bottom of the world. People at the bottom of the world mind their business, mostly.
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"I do believe everyone in Fairyland-Below is royalty!" September exclaimed. "Queens and Princes and Vicereines and Emperors - it's like visiting Europe!
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“I can never remember my dreams," said the shadow of the Marquess quietly. "You must have had rich, tasty ones then. When you can't remember a dream, it's because a Baku ate it.
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Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.
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Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.
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A ring don’t make a bride, that’s all.
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But I’ve brought you to the snow, and the snow is the beginning and the end of everything, everyone knows that.
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The nearness of him crushed her, like being held by the sun.
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It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
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Why should I care about you first kiss,' he said. 'You can kiss anyone you like. But sometimes if you wanted to kiss me, that would be all right, too.
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The Land of Parents is strange and full of peril.
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. . .building is medicine for free.
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
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A dragon looks like a girl when it is young.
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All children are required to attend School, which is like a party to which everyone forgot to bring punch, or hats, or fiddles, and none of the games have good prizes.