896 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

Oh, aren't you just the rottenest wet blanket whoever spoiled a sport.

I thought that for a long while, but you chose me, and then you chose him, and choosing is hard - one choice is never the end of the story.

Why is it safe for you and not for me?" whispered Marya Morevna."Because you're still a girl." The vintovnik grinned. "Girls have to obey rules. Chyerti break them.

all children are required to attend School, which is like a party to which everyone forgot to bring punch, or hats, or fiddles, and none of the games have good prizes.

Yes, September, We have all of us got it jumbled up. You never feel so grown up as when you are eleven, and never so young and unsure as when you are forty. That is why time is a rotten jokester and no one aught to let him in to dinner.

Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart.

I have to do it myself. That's what a Queen does. She saves herself.

The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough.

I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.