Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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In my experience, folk find it nigh on impossible to call a thing what it is.
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Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.
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But you’ve just never had better coffee than the fair-trade organic late-harvest darkest of dark roasts at a Voorpret espresso bar. And you don’t nuke that sort of thing from orbit. It’s just so hard to find a good cappuccino when you’re traveling.
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Did everything that had magic have teeth?
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Love is the Turing test, [...] It is how we check for life.
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Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!
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Draw the world the way you want it. Draw it and it will be.
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All things are strange which are worth knowing.
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I'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow. Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.
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For all that they love to make kings, John’s folk seem to have little interest in the actual business of ruling anything. They like to become, they do not like to be.
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The Heart of Fairyland is a story
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Check your pockets, my chimney-child.
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"We like the wrong sort of girls", they wrote. "They are usually the ones worth writing about.
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I love you, and I am your wife, and I forgive you of all the sins of this world, all the sins we invented just to commit within our cave. I love you ... In a world without end. I love you.
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I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost, because then I'd know where I was going, you see.
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A tongue is very like a gun, which is why they nearly rhyme. Both can be fired to devastating effect, for good or evil, and both can explode in your hands, wounding your comrades instead of your enemies.
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Flowers are always more serious than they appear.
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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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We were just holes, after all, holes filled up with light, and deep in our secret hearts we worried that we were an accident
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Most people don’t like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.
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Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering.
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...the beginning is where the end gets born.
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You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.
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She's an old woman possessed of great powers - but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think.