Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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If there are spells, they have a right to weave.
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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it is brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.
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"I think I look a little like a pumpkin,” whispered September, secretly delighted. “I’m all green and orange.
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“Don’t worry,” Marya whispered, kissing his forehead. “My old bones will follow yours soon enough.
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I was born a girl in a world of Branwells, but I shall be more than I am meant.
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I look at you, Masha, and it is like drinking cold water. I look at you and it is like my throat being cut.
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What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore?
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But you like him already, I can tell. Even though we showed our teeth and were very clear about his being wicked.
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She still longed for the best heights of magic, to see dragons and mermaids, to see the naked world.
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Every person draws a map that shows themselves at the center. But that does not mean that no other countries exist.
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You can't blame a book for its story.
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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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Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.
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How long was it, between the time when you were happy, and the time when you wanted to kill him?
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Fairyland is a very Scientifick place. We subscribe to all the best journals.
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Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girls are always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark.
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I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.
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So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.
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I said: I could be a wolf for you. I could put my teeth on your throat. I could growl. I could eat you whole. I could wait for you in the dark. I could howl against your hair.
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As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses. The speed of kisses is, in fact, what Doctor Fallow would call a cosmic constant. The speed of children has no limits.
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In a city by the sea that was certainly never called anything so bourgeois as St. Petersburg, there stood a long, thin house on a long, thin street.
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Where there's a labyrinth, there's a minotaur, and vice versa! I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur.
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I do not serve your personal issues, Morevna. I serve the People, and the People will have crimes against their body answered. You fought at Leningrad. So did I. Why should he be spared?' 'Somebody ought to be.
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You're just shy of figuring out how to shuffle your horde of hormone-curdled control-obsessed malignant narcissists off world. In short, you were about to become our problem. But now there is no problem! Now there is a process.