It’s Survival of Them Who’s Best at Nicking Things, girl!
– Catherynne M Valente
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- A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history. – Catherynne M Valente
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- I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? – Catherynne M Valente
- War must always be done out of sight, it shocks people and they stop immediately. – Catherynne M Valente
- So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar. – Catherynne M Valente
- We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about. – Catherynne M Valente
- Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup. – Catherynne M Valente
- Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody’s buying. – Catherynne M Valente
- I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves. – Catherynne M Valente
- I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.Nothing to brag on,but enough for you, and all your friends, too. – Catherynne M Valente
- Dreams keep the heart alive. – Catherynne M Valente
- A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world. – Catherynne M Valente
- I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston. – Catherynne M Valente
- I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not. – Catherynne M Valente
- And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power. – 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
- there is only this world, as it is now, and there has never been another, can never be any other. – 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
- 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
- The worst thing in the world is having to go back to the dark you shook off. – 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
- The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces-” those, I think, are the sensations of grief. – Catherynne M Valente
- Memory is like that. It alters itself so that girlsare always trapped under the earth, waiting in the dark. – Catherynne M Valente
- Perhaps memory is a thing that everyone involved has to work at, like stitching up a big quilt out of everything that ever happened to you. – Catherynne M Valente
- All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory. – Catherynne M Valente
- A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic. – Catherynne M Valente
- Music has more rules than math or magic and it’s twice as dangerous as both or either. – Catherynne M Valente
- Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad. – Catherynne M Valente
- Anything is a poem if you say it often enough. – 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
- Just tell yourself a story that’ll satisfy you and pretend he told it. – 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
- She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice. – Catherynne M Valente
- Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life! – Catherynne M Valente
- A tale may have exactly three beginnings: one for the audience, one for the artist, and one for the poor bastard who has to live in it. – Catherynne M Valente
- Any story told is a lie cunningly told to hide the real world from the poor bastards who live in it. – Catherynne M Valente
- How poor you are, September. You make my heart groan. I know about Homesickness. It begins with H. What will you do? – Catherynne M Valente
- We are halves, but we make an infinite whole. – Catherynne M Valente
- Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more. – Catherynne M Valente