Quotes About Catherynne

I'm lonely, whispered Doctor Callow. Don't be. There's a million worlds to play with.

Will Hilt to hand yet be restored? Take me up, thy mother's sword.

God is a random event, a nexus of pain and pleasure and making and breaking.

Very well, you do so love rules! I shall make some up for you on the spot, so that my little moppet is not forced to wander the world in a soup of stories without laws. 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.

There are no tigers for us, just a city, waiting, and it loves us, in whatever ways a city can love.

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.

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...

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.

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?

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.

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.

Dreamers don't make good workers. So you teach them that no matter how miserable, what they've got is the best, and the Other is terror and lies. Well, to be bold, fuck that.

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.

alive and warm and real and in gross violation of her HOA contract.

So a half-breed goatsnake, a Yith, and a Ghast walk into a bar.

It's a law, a law of the universe. Like gravity or stupidity or how a minor chord always sounds sad.

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.