Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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We hold demonstrations and civil wars when inequities are discovered.
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Everybody was terribly distracted by the seemingly unending, white-hot, existential, logistical, mostly mundane troubles of their own day-to-day lives.
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You’re better off - theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
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For a witch is nothing without her Spoon.
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There is no such thing as a good wife or a good husband. Only ones who bide their time.
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All coral in every world think of Australia the way that you and I think of Mesopotamia - it is the ancestral paradise of their civilization and they send it Valentines each February.
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Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
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It is in the nature of winds to Snatch and Grasp at things, and Blow Them Away.
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I sell Damascus steel, folded and intricate, dug up from the earth, practically useless, desirable only to lovers of the arcane, the beautiful, the old. No
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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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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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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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The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.
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Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.
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Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
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Everything is always happening all at once, in the present tense, forever, the beginning and the end and the denouement and the remaindering.
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I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.
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There is no end and no beginning. There is only we two, alone in the dark, for always.
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You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!
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I began my life as a character in my father's films.
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When I grew a little older, and had suitors, I demanded from them rings from the bottom of the sea, or a sword from the depths of the desert, or a golden bough and a thick golden fleece, too, before I allowed even one kiss.
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Sell your soul and half your shoes for a glass of gin.
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But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.
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War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving.