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Top 500 Catherynne M. Valente Quotes (2025 Update)
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Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Life’s still stupid but we got free of story out here under the beeches and the Big Dipper. We had enough of it, of things happening one after another and no end in sight. Of reversals and falling in love and tragic flaws, and by God if I see another motif in my business I will shoot it dead.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “You can’t say no if you don’t have desires and opinions and wants of your own. You wouldn’t even want to. No is the heart of thinking.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Everyone Is Looking for a Book Strong Enough to Change Them.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Be my friend and love me, for the world is terrible lonely and I am sad.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “A tongue is very like a gun, which is why they nearly rhyme. Both can be fired to devastating effect, for good or evil, and both can explode in your hands, wounding your comrades instead of your enemies.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one’s kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “In my experience, folk find it nigh on impossible to call a thing what it is. It.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks, which.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “It’s Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “We always dreamed the same dreams, which was like living twice.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “You come and go, vanish and appear. You miss years that go by for us, and we miss years that go by for you. We never know when we will find you again, or if we will. You meet us out of order, and sometimes I’ll be older and sometimes you will be because that’s the kind of story we’re in. It’s all jumbled up on the outside, but it all makes sense in your head. It all flows the right way in your heart.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “A child equals the mass of Fairyland times the speed of luck squared.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “A stepmother is like a bullet you can’t dig out. She fires true and she fires hot and she fires so quick that her metal hits your body before you even know there’s a fight on.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Over in the refrigerated section hang lies told so long ago and so often that they turned into the truth and get taught in history books.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours – they are in your care, and you must be faithful.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “September frowned; she probably did need to hear things which were cruel but true. If they were true it did not matter if they were cruel, even if all her mistakes were laid out before her like rings in a jeweler’s box.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Flowers are always more serious than they appear.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “But something older and wiser within her said, Some things are for hiding and for keeping.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Temperament, you’ll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “For witches, there is but one King and one Palace – the one who has wronged them, and the house in which he lives. In fairness, Kings are often quite as dense, calling themselves sacred vessels and masters of all things above and below when in fact they command a few patches of lonely dirt with even lonelier houses sitting upon them.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “After so long keeping to herself and tending her secret quietly, all these words just bubbled up out of her her like cool golden champagne.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “And the heart of Ivan Nikolayevich broke inside the body of Marya Morevna, and the pieces of him lodged deep in her bones, and through the window, the stars watched.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Humanity lived many years and ruled the earth, sometimes wisely, sometimes well, but mostly neither.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Hats change everything. September knew this with all her being, deep in the place where she knew her own name, and that her mother would still love her even though she hadn’t waved goodbye. For one day her father had put on a hat with golden things on it and suddenly he hadn’t been her father anymore, he had been a soldier, and he had left. Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “I belong in the refrigerator. Because the truth is, I’m just food for a superhero. He’ll eat up my death and get the energy he needs to become a legend.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “She long ago learned that if she waited and blinked and behaved like a pupil, eventually someone would lecture her on something.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “September had no natural defense against lost things, being one herself.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long – no one else can change their ways.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “I asked a queen once why she didn’t want me. She wasn’t a powerful queen, not a monarch of Spain or of Albania. Just a little kingdom of nowhere, but she married well and she had a crown. The queen of nowhere looked at me with her clear grey eyes and said: “Because I don’t want to be in a story.” Princesses usually grow up to be queens. The cleverness sticks long after the beauty goes.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “When you can change something just by saying a word, that is magic.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Some who deserve failure do not achieve it,” he sniffed. “Some who deserve nothing are given the world.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “I have all the books I need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Things that begin and end in grief: marriage, harvest, childbirth. Journeys away from home. Journeys toward home. Surgeries. Love. Weeping.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “I won’t be one of the hundreds telling you that being alive flows like a story you write consciously, deliberately, full of linear narrative, foreshadowing, repetition, motifs. The emotional beats come down where they should, last as long as they should, end where they should, and that should come from somewhere real and natural, not from the tyranny of the theatre, the utter hegemony of fiction.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “This is some hard-core, triple-X, keep-it-in-the-back-room-under-a-curtain, Alice in Wonderland action is what this is,” Decibel said with total delight.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “I did not see the appeal of a wife. We had never had one before. She would not be half as interesting as our buffalo.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “First Law of Heroics.” The Monaciello grinned up at a confused September. “Someone has to tell you it’s impossible, or the Quest can’t go on.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Don’t worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from?”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “She’d thought she left feeling helpless behind long ago – only we never leave helpless behind. It is a country in which we all hold passports.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “No one’s good just from being born any place.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “That’s what a map is, you know. Just a memory.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “The body does the living; the shadow does the dreaming.”
Catherynne M. Valente Quote: “A girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.”
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