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Quotes About Valente

Remember this when you are queen," she breathed. "I told you my secrets.
~ Catherine M. Valente
I'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow. Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Will Hilt to hand yet be restored? Take me up, thy mother's sword.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
There are no tigers for us, just a city, waiting, and it loves us, in whatever ways a city can love.
~ Catherynne M. Valente
Now, there are important rules in Fairyland, rules from which I shall one day be exempt, when my papers have been processed at last and I am possessed of the golden ring of diplomatic immunity.
~ 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
Is she very terrible?" The Green Wind frowned into his brambly beard. "All little girls are terrible, " he admitted finally, "but the Marquess, at least, has a very fine hat.
~ 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
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