Famous Catherynne M Valente Quotes
The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces-” those, I think, are the sensations of grief.– Catherynne M Valente
You can’t trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!– Catherynne M Valente
You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.– Catherynne M Valente
Buck up, baby blowfish. Just puff up bigger than your sadness and scare it right off. That’s the only way to live in the awful old ocean.– Catherynne M Valente
The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.– Catherynne M Valente
No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.– Catherynne M Valente
you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.– Catherynne M Valente
there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other.– Catherynne M Valente
When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can’t make it run the other way again.– Catherynne M Valente