Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
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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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The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.
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For a witch is nothing without her Spoon.
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Every cat knows how to keep his owner feeding them: You may scratch and bite ninety-nine times, but the hundredth time, you must leap into a lap and press your nose to their nose. Rules are for dogs.
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Sell your soul and half your shoes for a glass of gin.
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It's like Goguenar's Fourth General Unkillable Fact says: Everyone's always saying love is the element that binds the universe together, but that's a load of bollocks; It's convenience.
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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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Marya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
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A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
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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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She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not always make herself raise her hand.
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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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A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.
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But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
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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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I still want to kiss you. To feel the life in you seize on the life in me. Raw and fresh and new.
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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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Funniest thing about love, how it shakes loose when no one's looking. How the dark helps it along. Maybe that's why we dug caves so much, way back when.
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Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
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Firebirds are such frustating quarry. One minute it's all fiery tail feathers and red talons and the next, nothing but ash and a sore seat.
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Sweet as cherries, bright as berries, light of my moony sky.
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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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A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks
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We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!