Catherynne M Valente Quotes

“It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“Sweet as cherries, bright as berries, light of my moony sky.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“It's just that in detective stories, women are usually dead before the curtain goes up. In fairy tales, they're usually alive. Fairy tales are about survival. That's all they're about. The princess lives to get married in the last act. The detective solves the woman; the knight saves her.
And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.”
― Catherynne M. Valente

“When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

“Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“Everything in creation is just a trick of the light - the only difference between heaven and hell is who's running those lights, who's got the switch, who knows the cues.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance