Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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When you’ve lost your girl, it doesn’t much matter where you live. Everywhere is just The Place She Isn’t, and that’s the front and back of it.
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Love is the Turing test, [...] It is how we check for life.
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That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
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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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All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.
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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived. You, too, must learn to prefer it. After all, when all else is gone, you may still have bitterness in abundance.
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You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won't forget your war either.
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Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.
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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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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
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That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it.
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I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret.
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In his own country, Death can be kind.
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But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.
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You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.
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“Is it really a cage if it’s the size of the world?” “Yes,” said Emily, Charlotte, and Anne together, rather more loudly than any of them expected.
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You took on a Quest, which is a thing only men - and exceedingly stupid men, usually - do.
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I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
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After love, no one is what they were before.
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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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Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
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Things that begin and end in grief: marriage, harvest, childbirth. Journeys away from home. Journeys toward home. Surgeries. Love. Weeping.