Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland And Cut The Moon In Two Quotes

You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality.

All jobs are odd, or they would be games or naps or picnics.

Music has more rules than math or magic and it's twice as dangerous as both or either.

Time is no one's friend--time has no social niceties and holds the door for nobody nowhere. But I hold the door for time, with my one good paw.

I am sustained by Being Necessary.

Being Necessary is food no less than cabbages and strawberry pies.

It is important to announce your intentions at top volume, she thought, or your intentions will think you are ashamed of them.

Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening.

September drank in the starry sky with a longing and a tugging and a sigh. All the way up, to that enormous crescent in the black.

She had a highly developed sense of humor which in some lights looked a bit like a sense of justice.

A Bank is but a college of Fiscal Magic.

All Librarians are Secret Masters of Severe Magic. Goes with the territory.

That is the trouble with standing up to people, of course. Once you start doing it, you can hardly stop.

Everyone has their invisible cloak of all things past.

You can't trust just any old person who comes along with a hundred puffins and a pretty face!

you have to have the right sort of stone. Peridot for mothers, girasol for lovers, sapphire for sadness, and garnet for joy.

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.

It's a dreadful world with only your own heart to drive you.