896 Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.

Of course she cheated. Don’t be silly. Snow White spent half her growing years shuffling cards for no one. She can cut false and she can cut true, but she wasn’t going to lose when it counted.

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.

Clothes are a story you choose to tell about yourself, a different one every day.

You’re grown – crooked and backbent, but grown – and it’s time to stop hanging your heart on your mother.

Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one’s kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests.

The only price in the world that matters is the one that hurts to pay.

Wife sounded like something exciting, something daring, something a bit scoundrelly, like pirate or bandit. And they were bandits, of course.

Perhaps one was not meant to see what a husband looked like before he made himself more or less presentable. Perhaps the republic of husbands was a strange and frightening place full of not only birds, but bats too, and lizards, and bears, and worms, and other beasts waiting to fall out of a tree and into a wedding ring.