Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!
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Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
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If there are spells, they have a right to weave.
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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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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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The grass and the rivers and the stones and women and horses and more Stars and men and clouds and birds and trees came dancing through the afterbirth of the Mare
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When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.
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We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.
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So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar.
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But old women faced certain dangers in Fairyland, such as breaking a hip while riding a wild velocipede, or having everyone do what you say just because you had wrinkles.
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There a difference between having been coded to present a vast set of standardized responses to certain human facial, vocal, and linguistic states and having evolved to exhibit response B to input A in order to bring about a desired social result?
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"Don't trust metaphors," the wombat snorted. "If you let things start claiming to mean other things, there's no limit on how many things they can mean!"
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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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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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You’re better off - theatrical folk are nothing but a bundle of monologues and anxiety headaches.
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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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Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
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So you don’t love him. Why would you look for love with a man? How could a man ever understand you?
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Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?
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And that is the last lesson of childhood: You spend all your years fighting against the injustice of big folk and their big rules until you are ready to rule yourself.
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Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.
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She always gave the impression of having accidentally wandered in from a mad scientist’s conference, and felt rather desperate to get back.
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Pandemic, Pangaea, Panacea, Panoply. Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
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I began my life as a character in my father's films.