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Remember this when you are queen," she breathed. "I told you my secrets.
~ Catherine M. Valente
Would it be wrong to have the cats' arms and legs removed?" Belle says. "I just want them to be more"—she pauses to put the plate down and pull Jelly up into her neck—"beanbaggy. They're so annoyingly opinionated about coming and going." I imagine this would be a tough sell to the vet.
~ Catherine Newman
maybe that's redundant. Maybe that's the only kind of attorney there is.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Raymond expected them to ask why he wanted to know, or who this Luis Velez was to him. Something that showed an interest, or a connection. Then, a moment later, he wondered why he had expected it. After all these years.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
vaguely hear him talking in the background, but not a
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Yozzy is a horse, for which I envy her.
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
supermarket she tried to bite, and the dog was
~ Catherine Ryan Hyde
Moses does not recommend a theological lecture; children benefit more by hearing the stories that carry the theology.
~ Catherine Stonehouse
I like to praise and reward in a loud voice and to scold in a whisper.
~ Catherine the Great
Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to rescue you," she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Recite the Periodic Table of Teatime, in correct order, with Elemental Symbols, please.' A-Through-L sat back on his handsome black haunches, shut his eyes, and said: 'Hot Tea (H), Herbal Tea (He), Lingonberry Scones (Li), Berry Jam (Be), Butter (B), Cream (C), Napoleons (N), Orange Marmalade (O), Frosting (F), Nettle Tea (Ne)...
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Will Hilt to hand yet be restored? Take me up, thy mother's sword.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
And there's nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of candy. Mrs. Bailey and Mrs. Newitz are the kindest ladies you'll ever meet, and they have nips of whiskey in their tea like cowboys.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
I have tried to be a generous narrator and care for my girl as best I can. I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures...
~ Catherynne M. Valente
The Heart of Fairyland is a story," she said, and she felt so warm and light and full of rightness of it that she thought she might faint.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
You're looking very fine tonight, Grandmother! Why, you've hardly any warts at all! Bathing in blood again, I'll warrant. Virgins or capitalists this time?
~ 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
A clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Perhaps, if hunting had occurred, they had hunted each other through the stacks of books, sending warning shots of Shakespeare over one another's heads.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
alive and warm and real and in gross violation of her HOA contract.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad.
~ 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
Biffi said it was more American on an air force base in Crete than it was in Times Square.
~ Cathleen Schine