« All World Quotes · Catherynne M. Valente's Page
World Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente
- 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…
- The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.
- I have tried to write stories that go into the underworld of myth and bring out life and fire — where the old world looked…
- 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…
- I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world and out. I want…
- It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to…
- I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening,…
- To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the…
- I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Marya Morevna; I have…
- That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove in the world, until even if you…
- What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
- Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the…
- When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.
- The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for…
- Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's the way of the world.
- Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly…
- There's more than one way between your world and ours. There's the changeling road, and there's the Ravishing, and there's those that Stumble through a…
- A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.
- Once more September marveled that even the Dodo knew what she wanted to be when she was grown. She simply could not think what she…
- For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is…
- A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.
- When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment, the flickering light…
- This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your black deals in the…
- Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they were kids just to…
More World Quotes
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach