Book Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

13 Book quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

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Valente’s verses about books feel like a short, magical spell—each line hinting at hidden worlds and the wonder of turning a page. Even a brief selection captures her love for storytelling’s texture.

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“You can't blame a book for its story.”

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I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

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A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and…

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A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

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How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring…

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“One: A Library Is the Size of the Universe and the Universe Is the Size of a Library. Two: Everyone Is Looking…

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Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is…

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“...she had saved herself for this, stored her love within her so that this book, which could not possibly have been written…

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She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her…

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I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floating about. I…

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I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant…

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I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became…

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These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute…

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“Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.”

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“The cicada lies in the earth for seventeen years. It is warm and dark there, it is soft and wet. Its little legs curl…

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We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on…

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Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for…

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“September put her hand on the grip of the Rivet Gun. She’d only just gotten it, and she’d promised to take copious notes for…

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Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.

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“You see, the future is a kind of stew, a soup, a vichyssoise of the present and the past. That's how you get the…

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Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are…

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