896 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

She’d thought she left feeling helpless behind long ago – only we never leave helpless behind. It is a country in which we all hold passports.

What was a person, if not the things they knew and the face they wore?

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?

He didn’t even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal.

If he lost everything else, pride, priapism, and producer credit, Decibel Jones would never, never give up his swagger.

Love is what grown folk do to each other because the law frowns on killing. I.

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

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

The tales lovers tell each other about how they met are hushed and secret things. They change year by year, for we all meet many times as we grow up and become different and new and exciting people – and this never stops, even for a minute, even when we are ninety.