Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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Respect me. Be proud, and if you love me, a little afraid, because love so often looks like fear. We are alike. We are alike.
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Up to no good may mean up to something interesting!
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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
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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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But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I do.
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In his own country, Death can be kind.
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After love, no one is what they were before.
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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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The world had gotten gritty enough. The only thing left to do in all that dirt was to shine.
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That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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Lebedeva snapped her fingers. “It’s like lying!” she exclaimed. “Well, we understand that, of course! The bigger the lie, the happier the liar.”
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I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.
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In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.
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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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"All money is imaginary," answered the Calcatrix simply. "Money is magic everyone agrees to pretend is not magic.
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Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
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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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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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It is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair. At least, one eats better that way. And morality is more dependent on the state of one's stomach than of one's nation
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So much light, sweet girl, begins in the dark.
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Histories are instruments of oppression.
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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.
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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.