Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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What mirrors we are, set to face each other, reflecting desire.
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I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.
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That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
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But a person’s smell and their alarms and borrowed shirts and secret words linger for a long time. Much longer than a house.
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...snow is the beginning and the end of everything...
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Luck is a finite and rare substance in the universe, like palladium or cobalt. To use it, you have to take it from somebody else.
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Histories are instruments of oppression.
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Most people don’t like complexity. They would prefer the world to be simple.
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Autumn has a hungry heart - September is the beginning of death.
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Heroes in motion tend to stay in motion, but villains in motion tend toward mass destruction.
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Everything in the world is a boxing match in your heart, between Boldness and Not-Boldness. You let them holler inside you and wallop each other with Arguments For and Against. Then you end by betting on one or the other and that’s how things get decided.
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The world had gotten gritty enough. The only thing left to do in all that dirt was to shine.
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Things I Will Try to Say More Often: Why? I love you. I’m sorry. May I have chocolate? Yes. yes. yes.
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The war is always going badly.
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She did not want Fairyland to be full of older girls who wanted to be stars.
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You have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.
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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
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Love is the Turing test, [...] It is how we check for life.
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Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than the Second Law of Thermodynamics, the Uncertainty Principle, and No Post on Sundays.
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The Heart of Fairyland is a story
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Human contact is a terrible drug. Sometimes, you’ll even take the hit you know is tainted. You can’t stop yourself. The need is too strong.
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Things that begin and end in grief: marriage, harvest, childbirth. Journeys away from home. Journeys toward home. Surgeries. Love. Weeping.
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The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.
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He ran like if he kept running he could escape the last thousand years.