All Catherynne M. Valente Quotes
- I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd like to get lost,… Any
- Someone ought to write a novel about me, Inspirational
- These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who… Beast
- After love, no one is what they were before. Funny
- When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. Brighter
- Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears. Almost Always
- Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You'll never wish you'd held back a little more. Fast
- All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics. All
- We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I… Care
- First, the avid student must be aware that when the world was young it knew only seven things: water, life and death, salt, night, birds… Avid
- The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off. Dark
- Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's… Babies
- I've always had enough, even if my enough and your enough are as different as an elephant and a minaret. Elephant
- I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked… Alone
- I am freedom and I will eat your heart Eat
- I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It's not done! You don't go out of your house without… Any
- At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone wants so much,… All
- You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing. Behind
- Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone. Anyone
- If I stop, I shall sink and die. That's the way I'm made. I have to keep going always, and even when I get where… Die