896 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.

Perhaps all a Tsaritsa is is a beautiful cold girl in the snow, looking down at someone wretched, and not yielding.

Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.

What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

Someone ought to write a novel about me,

She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.

You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something of what has been lost.

Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

After love, no one is what they were before.