Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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"The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.
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Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
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That's just the first part. What others call you, you become. It's a terrible magic that everyone can do - so do it. Call yourself what you wish to become.
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What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear boredom the way mortals fear death.
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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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When you can change something just by saying a word, that is magic.
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She is my wife and I am her own and you were not invited. Leave us alone.
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That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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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
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Check your pockets, my chimney-child.
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In the beginning there was Dust, and in the end there will be Dust, and in the middle there is Dust, Dust, Dust!
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When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start another.
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We who were once living can guard you still, and love you, and keep you living safe and whole. Nothing ever truly dies.
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...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
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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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Anything is a poem if you say it often enough.
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We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.
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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
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The dead know how to savor as the living never can.
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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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Perhaps, if you take a long enough view, we are all stronger than our goblins.
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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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There's no fun in arguing if you never get shown up. Who plays a game it there's no chance they'll lose? I do so crave to be proven wrong,. It is as sweet as proving yourself right, when done properly.
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You can't say no if you don't have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn't even want to. No is the heart of thinking.