Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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That’s the only way to look at things, I always say,” propounded the Duke. “Slantways, sideways, and upside down.”
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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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“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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She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.
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The opposite of Calypso is apocalypse.
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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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Let us say I am something like a witch, and something like a jester, and something like a mother.
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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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However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely.
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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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Some switches must be flipped, and some children cannot help turning off to on and on to off, just to see what will happen.
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Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.
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Calpurnia squinted through her goggles and thought to herself, That is a Key. 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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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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Dreams keep the heart alive.
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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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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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When the aliens come, there’ll be one queue to fight them and one queue to fuck them, and the second one’ll be longer by light-years.
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No one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough
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I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
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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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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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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.