Famous Catherynne M Valente Quotes

  • Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That’s what death is for. That’s why they keep telling this story. It’s the only story. – Catherynne M Valente

    Life is like that. Death sweeps it away. That’s what death is for. That’s why they keep telling this story. It’s the only story.– Catherynne M Valente

  • It’s Survival of Them Who’s Best at Nicking Things, girl! – Catherynne M Valente

    It’s Survival of Them Who’s Best at Nicking Things, girl!– Catherynne M Valente

  • She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice. – Catherynne M Valente

    She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.– Catherynne M Valente

  • She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.– Catherynne M Valente

  • Don’t worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from? – Catherynne M Valente

    Don’t worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?– Catherynne M Valente

  • Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither. – Catherynne M Valente

    Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.– Catherynne M Valente

  • You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning. – Catherynne M Valente

    You get the face you build your whole life, with work and loving and grieving and laughing and frowning.– Catherynne M Valente

  • She was … unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies. – Catherynne M Valente

    She was … unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies.– Catherynne M Valente

  • Just tell yourself a story that’ll satisfy you and pretend he told it. – Catherynne M Valente

    Just tell yourself a story that’ll satisfy you and pretend he told it.– Catherynne M Valente

  • But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs. – Catherynne M Valente

    But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.– Catherynne M Valente