Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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The day of the worst thing in the world was long and hot and bright, packed so full of summer autumn seeped out through the stitches.
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And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power.
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It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad.
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Because the opposite of fascism isn't anarchy, it's theater. When the world is fucked, you go to the theater, you go to the shine, and when the bad men come, all there is left to do is sing them down.
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The opposite of Calypso is apocalypse.
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Yet humanity could not conceive. It tried and tried, and called mighty wizards from every corner of its earthly kingdom, but no child came. Many mourned, and said that a child was a terrible idea to begin with, ...
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Of course she cheated. Don't be silly. Snow White spent half her growing years shuffling cards for no one. She can cut false and she can cut true, but she wasn't going to lose when it counted.
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"Some who deserve failure do not achieve it,” he sniffed. “Some who deserve nothing are given the world.
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What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore?
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I am sustained by Being Necessary.
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Dreams keep the heart alive.
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Being the oldest sometimes meant being everyone's boss, but mostly, it meant being everyone's pack mule.
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Iago shrugged his furry shoulders. “As you like. Saves me the work of picking the lock with my incisor."
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Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she is right?
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“Oh!" cried the young man. "A little deaf child! How sweet! We should adopt her and teach her to write symphonies. She'll be all the rage in town. I'll buy her a powdered wig and a tricorne!
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Where’s the nerdy shy Predator scientist who figured out how to build a spaceship while all the big jock Predators were down the pub ripping one another’s spines out, eh?
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Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.
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You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
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"This is some hard-core, triple-X, keep-it-in-the-back-room-under-a-curtain, Alice in Wonderland action is what this is,” Decibel said with total delight.
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It is good that you ruined your face, because it brought you to me, but also because beautiful women rarely work strong magic.
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I'm gonna be good at something other than marrying, darlings. Besides, I don't want them. I don't even wanna screw them, how am I gonna marry them?
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I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them.
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Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.
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Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.