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

    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 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

    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

    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

    The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off.– Catherynne M Valente

  • We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly. – Catherynne M Valente

    We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.– Catherynne M Valente

  • No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings. – 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

    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

    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

    When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can’t make it run the other way again.– Catherynne M Valente