Quote

Never trust anyone under one hundred!

Catherynne M. Valente

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Cat Valente
Hundred
Trust
Anyone
Never

More quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

Image
Woman! Come out! I have— She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. I have come to rescue you, she finally said, as if admitting that she were covered in boils.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
Fierce was her needle, and she wore it like a sword.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and a snooze button on her shield.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so?
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
Blue is for cruel bargains green is for daring what you oughtn’t violet is for brute force. I will say to you: Coral coaxes pink insists red compels. I will say to you: You are dear to me as attar of roses. Please do not get eaten.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be harder still to show it. It is a terrible magic in this world to ask for exactly the thing you want. Not least because to know exactly the thing you want and look it in the eye is a long, long labor.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
I am freedom and I will eat your heart
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
In his own country, Death can be kind.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
He missed you like a fish in a bowl misses the open sea.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do they know reason or restraint, and if you want to know the truth, a goodly number of grown-up hearts never learn it.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
Someone ought to write a novel about me.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
I am the Walker and the Maze.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.
Catherynne M. Valente
Image
Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
Catherynne M. Valente