896 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

... for my eeries, anything. Anything, forever, always.

When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.

When the world loses its fucking mind and turns on you like a stupid feral cat you thought was tame, it happens. Everyone does the long, woozy whistle, and keel over.

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

Tell it fast before you get scared and silence yourself. You’ll never wish you’d held back a little more.

Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a quest through a queer country. Of course, they often have a good deal of trouble with the Quiet.

I am here to tell youWe are all of us just as mighty as planets—and you too,We'll let you in, we've got stalwart to spare—But you might have to sleep on the floor.

All things are strange which are worth knowing.

Still, she was not sorry. If the world is divided into seeing and not seeing, Marya thought, I shall always choose to see.