896 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

If a bird or any other beast comes out of that uncanny republic where husbands are grown, I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.

Quando alguém está a viajar, tudo parece mais luminoso e mais agradável, o que não significa que seja mais luminoso e mais agradável, significa apenas que o lar terno e aprazível sofre em comparação com lugares desconhecidos aprimorados, com tudo o que têm de melhor à mostra.

There’s no fun in arguing if you never get shown up. Who plays a game if there’s no chance they’ll lose? I do socrave to be proven wrong. It is as sweet as proving yourself right, when done properly. The trouble is, mostpeople only argue with their friends and their family, which a real sportsman knows is no way to practice. If noone you know can prove you wrong, you’re in peril and that’s the truth.

I don't see where you get off fretting about whether or not the end of the world is family-friendly.

And the funny, impish magic of a wrap party is that everyone still has scraps of their characters hanging off them like Salome's veils, fluttering, fading, but not quite finished tangling the tongue and tripping the feet. You're not in Wonderland anymore, but you positively reek of rabbit.

Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?

Do you think, if Columbus had stood on the bow of his ship, looked at the New World and understood everything to come, all the disease and death and betrayal, all the ugliness, all the blood - do you think he would have embraced it, called it paradise?

Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.

Almanack’s deep green eyes shone. “Is it? Have you done a long, hard thing for the sake of someone you loved, so long and so hard that your body shook with the difficulty of it, that you were thirsty and aching and ravenous by the time it was done, but it did not matter, you did not even feel the thirst or the pain or the hunger, because you were doing what was Necessary?”“Yes,” September whispered.