Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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I have survived, but I have not been spared.
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She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.
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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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Your privilege is comprised of the questions you’ve never had to ask.
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A basic moral imperative is in play here. If you can protect a child, you must.
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I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.
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A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
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Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater.
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The kind of smile that has kept a froggy, dark sort of surprise in its back pocket, and won’t spoil it too soon.
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That's how it goes - as soon as there's anything interesting in Ancient Greece, some arsehole with a magic hat comes along to murder it.
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He'll burn you down like wax if you let him. You'll think it's love, while he dines on your heart. And maybe it will be. But he's so hungry, he'll eat you all in one sitting, and you'll be in his belly, and what will you do then?
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Just remember that the only question in a house is who is to rule. The rest is only dancing around that, trying not to look it in the eye.
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That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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Woman! Come out! I have - " She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.
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That's your first hint that something's alive. It says no.
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Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life!
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You are not the chosen one, September. Fairyland did not choose you – you chose yourself.
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When you can change something just by saying a word, that is magic.
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...the beginning is where the end gets born.
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God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
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What was magical at two in the morning was tawdry and cheap and dangerous to your health at two in the afternoon.
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But the longer I’m dead, the more I think the universe is a big blackboard with rules scrawled all over it in chalk and stardust and it’s just that the damn thing is flipped over and turned away from us so we can’t see anything but the erase, which death, hitting the floor.
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Never assume that a woman is wicked simply because she is ugly and behaves unfavorably towards you. It is unbecoming behavior for a Prince.
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Al kept it coming and nobody asked how and his only rule was: share. Be warm, be innocent, open your everything, speak easy. Share