Time Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

“How long was it, between the time when you were happy, and the time when you wanted to kill him?”

— Catherynne M. Valente

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

— Catherynne M. Valente

“How wonderful is ritual, what comfort in dark times!”

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“Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

The future is a messy, motley business, little girl.

— Catherynne M. Valente

She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Vampires should be pretty much like mean girls, all the time, only amazing at it. Flawless. They've had time.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.

— Catherynne M. Valente

“What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.

— Catherynne M. Valente

The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you…

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“You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Oh, but Masha, can’t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time…

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When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment,…

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“When a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening,…

— Catherynne M. Valente

However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It…

— Catherynne M. Valente

Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The whole point of growing up is to get big enough to hold the world you want inside you. But it takes…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“All time is mean young man. It takes and does not give, it rushes when you wish it would linger and drags…

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“He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The…

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Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is…

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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…

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“Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents’ house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow…

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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…

— Catherynne M. Valente

It’s been me all along,” said September slowly. “Me who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That…

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“There is always a moment when stories end, a moment when everything is blue and black and silent, and the teller does…

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“Listen to me. Love is a Yeti. It is bigger than you and frightening and terrible. It makes loud and vicious noises.…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Time is the only magic, he said, "And Marids swim through time like the sea. Think: if you hurt yourself, and I…

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“Just as there are different types of stars—red and white and brown and blue and dwarf and giant and all that lot—there…

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“Do you think I am a foo, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If you’ve built a steam-powered wishing…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“The Marquess shrugged. “I’m a shadow. I do know I am a shadow, Iago. I know most of the time. It’s only…

— Catherynne M. Valente

It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be…

— Catherynne M. Valente

One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some…

— Catherynne M. Valente

“Here’s something I bet you don’t know: every time someone writes a story about a dragon a real dragon dies. Something about…

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“Once upon a time on a small, watery, excitable planet called Earth, in a small, watery, excitable country called Italy, a soft-spoken,…

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“After all, growing up is nothing but an argument with your parents on the topic of whether or not you are grown.…

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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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Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty…

— Catherynne M. Valente