“ And hell, sometimes the best thing is to put on a black dress and become a wicked stepmother. There’s power in that, if you’re after power. Catherynne M. Valente
“ I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not. Catherynne M. Valente
“ The sun hitched up her trousers and soldiered on up into the sky. September squinted at it and wondered if the sun here was different than the sun in Nebraska. It seemed gentler, more golden, deeper.… Catherynne M. Valente
“ Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and… Catherynne M. Valente
“ A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whether it has been taught to sit up or to lie down, to speak or to beg, to roll over or to sound alarms,… Catherynne M. Valente
“ But the trick most folk are so awfully fond of learning, the absolute second they've got hold of a heart, is to pretend they don't have one at all. It is the very first danger of the hearted. Catherynne M. Valente
“ I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.Nothing to brag on,but enough for you, and all your friends, too. Catherynne M. Valente
“ I'm gonna be good at something other than marrying, darlings. Besides, I don't want them. I don't even wanna screw them, how am I gonna marry them? Catherynne M. Valente
“ I ate all of my husbands. First I ate their love, then their will, then their despair, and then I made pies of their bodies - and those bodies were so dear to me! Catherynne M. Valente
“ Marriage is a wrestling match where you hold on tight while your mate changes into a hundred different things. The trick is that you're changing into a hundred other things, but you can't let go. You… Catherynne M. Valente
“ Sibyl, what do you want?”“I want to live,” the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. “I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world… Catherynne M. Valente
“ I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves. Catherynne M. Valente
“ A body can only deliver up the truth its bones know, Its blood, which is its history. Catherynne M. Valente
“ Long before you were born a man decided that there could be a very simple test to determine if a machine was intelligent. Not only intelligent, but aware, possessed of a psychology. The test had only… Catherynne M. Valente
“ Those were all big words, to be sure, but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying… Catherynne M. Valente
“ It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. Catherynne M. Valente
“ Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying. Catherynne M. Valente
“ Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever. A woman wants a big cup. Catherynne M. Valente
