Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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But love is love, and love is compulsion. I must, and I 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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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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That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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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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Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.
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She did not want Fairyland to be full of older girls who wanted to be stars.
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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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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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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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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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Things which are gone in the morning: sleep, darkness, grief, the moon. Women. Dreams.
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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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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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That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
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Never give up your voice for a man, you fucking guppy.
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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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We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.
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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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Heroes in motion tend to stay in motion, but villains in motion tend toward mass destruction.
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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.