No one knows themselves very well. Who has the time these days? Have you been formally introduced to yourself? Made the effort to get to know your faults and your strengths, sit yourself down to tea and listen to all your troubles, answered the call when yourself falters? Then how can you say you know yourself in the least?


Catherynne M. Valente

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

Your ears love to hear, so speak to it
SOTONYE ANGA
Know yourself, love yourself, trust yourself, learn to spend time in your own company and listen to ...
ETTA SAWYERR
Listen to your instincts. Trust yourself. You'll know when you're being honest with yourself and whe...
AKIROQ BROST
When was the last time you wanted to say it all to the right person? To have it all come out right, ...
HENRY ROLLINS
Being Yourself” means aligning your beliefs, words and actions. Be yourself, accept yourself, valu...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Accept yourself, your strengths, your weaknesses, your truths, and know what tools you have to fulfi...
STEVE MARABOLI
Practice being kinder to yourself. Practice celebrating your accomplishments. Practice complimenting...
AKIROQ BROST
Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI
When you try to talk about yourself, you dont know who you are, or what your like, or what your like...
CAROL CHANNING
When you are angry you will find that you have lost yourself. You have lost yourself to outside forc...
AVINA CELESTE
To love yourself completely, in spite of all your faults and foibles, is THE work. For only when you...
DONNA M THOMAS
You have the approval of yourself. That's quite enough for we who know true inner peace! - Charmaini...
CHARMAINE SMITH LADD
When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you ...
BRIAN TRACY
Be true to yourself & your feelings.They will never let you down.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Be choosy. Fill yourself a plate and ideally your should go sit down away from the buffet. Then you ...
KATHLEEN ZELMAN
When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT
Working hard is not a waste of time, but a state of mind. Keep pushing your limits until you reach t...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES
You are the only best friend of yourself. Because you are the only one who knows about yourself as n...
NISHI DE SILVA
Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets.
OSCAR WILDE
Self worth is how you perceive yourself, how you talk about yourself, and how you represent yourself...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
When you are dispirited, held back, beat down and you have no one,you can give up, give in, or you c...
JILL ANZINGER
You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it's time...
MICK JAGGER
You can pace yourself if you know how much time is involved, ... If you can get the other person to ...
CAMILLE LAVINGTON
When you take the time to really know yourself—know your values, know your beliefs, know what is i...
SURAJ DAHAL
Confidence is most important factor in achieving success. You have to believe in yourself first then...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has mad...
SOPHOCLES
Your body is your body; it's natural. Learn to love yourself for it.
EMILY RATAJKOWSKI
At first, you get your jaw broken but next time you know better than anyone how to protect yourself.
GAYENDRA ABEYWARDANE
You are a confabulatory creature by nature. You are always explaining to yourself the motivations fo...
DAVID MCRANEY
Believe in your greatness. Believe in your potential. Don't sell yourself short. Don't give up too e...
AKIROQ BROST
Take the time to reflect and get to know yourself. Understanding yourself and your behavior is an in...
AKIROQ BROST
You are all you have to offer the world. Know yourself, love yourself and be yourself.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Life is a lot easier when you make peace with yourself. When you forgive yourself. When you stop tor...
AKIROQ BROST
Use your heart. Understand. Learn to see things
in the now, not as they were or will be, or as ...
E.J. PATTEN
Know who you are, know your mission and educate yourself in your mission field
SUNDAY ADELAJA
When you start loving yourself and respecting your time and energy, things will change. Get to know ...
GERMANY KENT
And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will mo...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
And since you know you cannot see yourself,
so well as by reflection, I, your glass,
will ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Confidence & self belief are most important factor to make you person of success.. You have to belie...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
It's a a damn good day to be alive.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you ...
DR. SEUSS
Meditation is a journey to know yourself. Knowing yourself has many layers. Start knowing your bodil...
AMIT RAY
But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns an...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
go steady when mentally breaking down the barriers of your brain so that you may come to understand ...
CODY MATTHEW ROCK
Your self-image tells about what you think about yourself and how you appear to yourself in your own...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
Stay true to yourself.Take everyday challenge in your stride & strive to make journey of life exactl...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Be true to yourself & know your virtue & capability. This will inculcate sense of confidence & fulln...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Be true to yourself.Give wings of confidence & courage to your endeavour. Your strength is reflected...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
You know you're being yourself when you 'please' without trying (so hard).
MITTA XININDLU
Don't lie to yourself?
SONYA.E.WILLIAMS
A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
TOM STOPPARD
I'm talking to myself in two different personas now. I'm reaching for a full-throttle meltdown and w...
C.K. KELLY MARTIN
If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI
Don’t let anyone kick you down, but if they do, pick yourself up & dust off yourself. Never change...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
You can talk to yourself and you can answer yourself, but if feel the need to pardon yourself, that'...
SHORT QUOTES
Don’t listen to what people tell you because they’ll try to bring you down. And don’t listen t...
CHRIS COLFER
You wake up in the morning and you look at your old spoon, and you say to yourself, 'Mick, it...
MICK JAGGER
You Yourself know Your Own Ways; You dwell upon Yourself.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
When you're unhappy, you get to pay a lot of attention to yourself. And you get to take yourself oh ...
TOM ROBBINS
To get more out of yourself, you have to expect more out of yourself. Before your body can achieve i...
RICKY WILLIAMS
No one knows your truth but you. If you're secure in yourself, no one and no(thing) can touch you.
BRITTANY BURGUNDER
You are believing not in your god but in yourself if your god knows no better than you do...and yet,...
CRISS JAMI
When nobody else celebrates you, learn to celebrate yourself. When nobody compliments you, then comp...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
When you look at them from a distance then suddenly your heart races, you feel sick, your legs shake...
AMIR BENDAALI
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to yo...
MITCH ALBOM
Be with a guy who lets you know how important you are to him. Do not allow yourself to settle. Do no...
JOY MANISCALCO
You pray for things and accept the blessings when they come, you know? And it is about how you talk ...
AL JARREAU
When you're traveling you need to take care of yourself to get by, you have to keep an eye on yourse...
OLGA TOKARCZUK
Trust yourself. Believe in yourself. Listen to your inner voice. Don't second guess yourself. Learn ...
AKIROQ BROST
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction y...
DR. SEUSS
To have a conflict of a decision within yourself, no matter how trivial can sometimes lead you to ch...
GARY F EVANS...
Bring your dreams to reality. Believe in yourself. You know you have what it takes, to make your dre...
MARK F. LAMOURE
Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you
RASHEDUR RYAN RAHMAN
Give yourself a great self-respect to know who you are then your confidence will shine on you
RASHEDUR RAHMAN
Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS...
Dear young woman, do not place your sense of beauty and self worth, upon the plastic pedestal called...
C. JOYBELL C.
Your Skin is not a deprivation, your life is not a defeat, the fact that you call yourself black doe...
PATIENCE JOHNSON
Message from Archangel Ariel: "Be kind to yourself in your mind. Be your own best friend of encourag...
KIMBERLY DAWN
It’s common to reject or punish yourself when you’ve been rejected by others. When you experienc...
CHRISTINA ENEVOLDSEN
Never say, "O Lord, I am a miserable sinner." Who will help you? You are the help of the universe. W...
SWAMI VIVEKANANDA
Let today mark a new beginning for you. Give yourself permission to say NO without feeling guilty, m...
STEPHANIE LAHART
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yours...
THOMAS KEMPIS
Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yours...
THOMAS A KEMPIS
Poetry is often the art of overhearing yourself say things you didn't know you knew. It is a lea...
DAVID WHYTE
No; you shall tear yourself away, none shall help you: you shall yourself pluck out your right eye; ...
CHARLOTTE BRONTë
No one and nothing outside of you can give you salvation, or free you from the misery. You have to l...
BANANI RAY
To boost self-esteem you must recognize your good qualities. You define your strengths and your exce...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love.
DYLAN LAUREN
You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to k...
DON DELILLO
Happiness happens when you know yourself, your true calling and that you get what you tolerate.
JOHN G AGNO
The more you spend time in a herd, the more you will move away from yourself! So you must move away ...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
Enjoy every moment & keep focus on your goals. Dreams remind you why you are focusing on your goals ...
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA
Don't forget to love yourself.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
It is really hard to completely re-learn how to express yourself without using words. When you take ...
JODELLE FERLAND
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction y...
DR. SEUSS
Say to yourself, I will call the office at six every other day, and that is when you do it, so it is...
LIZ TUCKER
If you don’t know your maker, chances are that you will never know yourself. If you don’t know y...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR
YOU ARE TOLD TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOUR AS YOURSELF, BUT I SAY LOVE THEM MORE THAN YOU LOVE YOURSELF FOR...
STEPHEN .R. ANYAEGBU
There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn yourself to be miserabl...
LAURELL K. HAMILTON

More Catherynne M. Valente

For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Te...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
And the funny, impish magic of a wrap party is that everyone still has scraps of their characters ha...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It's just that in detective stories, women are usually dead before the curtain goes up. In fairy tal...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
And if they thought her aimless, if they thought her a bit mad, let them. It meant they left her alo...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Never put your faith in a Prince. When you require a miracle, trust in a Witch.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Some girls have to go to college to discover what they are good at; some are born doing what they mu...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally d...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lie...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You gotta be nice to strangers even when they are the worst, because they don't know you well enough...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
This is what it means to be a woman in this world. Every step is a bargain with pain. Make your blac...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The goblins of the city may hold committees to divide a single potato, but the strong and the cruel ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
At the snowy summit of all these things, however, is the fact that you simply cannot go about lockin...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
A Wyvern’s body is different from the body of a young girl in several major respects. First, it ha...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt any...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a po...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Blue is for cruel bargains; green is for daring what you oughtn’t; violet is for brute force. I wi...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Marya Morevna! Don't you know anything? Girls must be very, very careful to care only for ribbons an...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Lebedeva’s eyes shone. “Masha, listen to me. Cosmetics are an extension of the will. Why do you ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I’m a monster,” said the shadow of the Marquess suddenly. “Everyone says so.”

Th...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
1. Santa Claus is real. However, your parents are folkloric constructs meant to protect and foritfy ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You can't have whatever you want. But to a child who must ask permission for every single thing,...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Humans do not proceed in an orderly fashion from one scene to the next. Memory lies underneath happe...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontie...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I'm not lost, because I haven't any idea where to go that I might get lost on the way to. I'd lik...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency an...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Children make prayers so thoughtlessly, building them up like sand castles—and they are always sur...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It seems like every few years a big name author will holler something about how evil, heinous, and m...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Many people in this room have an Etsy store where they create unique, unreplicable artifacts or usef...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
...while epic fantasy is based on the fairy tale of the just war, that’s not one you’ll find in ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The sun hitched up her trousers and soldiered on up into the sky. September squinted at it and wonde...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
But this is a story,
and in a story
there is always someone
beautiful enough."
<...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them."
"They...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We love WWII because the cause was so obviously just, because you can't be a good person and say you...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
They want only their private toys and candies, and will not share.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Do you know what a thirteen-year-old girl can do when she is alone and frightened and believes she i...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
If you are a monster, stand up.
If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend,
If you’ve bu...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Because she did not look behind, September did not see the smoky-glass casket close itself primly up...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
8. Santa Claus is concerned about the problem of Arctic ice. The ice is the spouse of the elves, and...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Shall I tell her? Shall I be a kind and merciful narrator and take our girl aside? Shall I touch her...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
A heart can learn ever so many tricks, and what sort of beast it becomes depends greatly upon whethe...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
But the trick most folk are so awfully fond of learning, the absolute second they've got hold of a h...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I am certainly intrepid and splendid and sordid and strong; I can see why you'd want me! But I'm afr...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on w...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kiss...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She felt as she often did in class when she was nearly sure she had the right answer, but could not ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
One: A Library Is the Size of the Universe and the Universe Is the Size of a Library. Two: Everyone ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Children are natural practitioners of the Queer and the Questing, for childhood is nothing but a que...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I'm sure you've heard people talk about their Heart's Desire—well that's a load of rot. Hearts are...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You cannot escape where you come from, September. Some part of it remains inside you always, like th...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
September did not want to feel for the Marquess. That’s how villains get you, she knew. You feel b...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Do you suppose you will look the same when you are an old woman as you do now? Most folk have three ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
And then she felt her Ell’s great strong presence beside her, and Saturday slipped his hand in her...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Oh, September! It is so soon for you to lose your friends to good work and strange loves and high am...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I have missed you so much I could kiss you,” he whispered.

September’s face fell. “...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it is...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She must protect herself. There would be no one to do it for her. A plan started to prick up its ear...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has h...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Cats don’t have dark sides. That’s all a shadow is—and though you might be prejudiced against ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Shows what you know, sunny-girl! I’m sure you’ve heard people talk about their Heart’s Desire�...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thi...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her ches...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew ver...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to o...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She did not know yet how sometimes people keep parts of themselves hidden and secret, sometimes wick...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another hear...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it ne...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Who told you you couldn't come back when you're grown? Was it the same person who told you grown-ups...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of m...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
That's how you get deathless, volchitsa. Walk the same tale over and over, until you wear a groove i...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Thieves are not so bad, and killing wears all possible costumes. There is no death, no murder that i...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
No good thing can last forever, because people are terrible and we have this feeling, we all have th...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Even if you hadn't entirely deposed (and possibly killed) not one but two governments and d...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Woman! Come out! I have—" She looked down at the bloodless grass, embarrassed. "I have come to res...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Fate is a woman, I said to them. In fact, she is three women. Young, like us, so that they will have...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Trouble is, most times, when you go looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I’m not a Knight. I’m a Bishop. Or at least I am trying to be. And traveling with you is the mos...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
All things are strange which are worth knowing.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
And there’s nothing wrong with spinsters, anyway. They have nice cats and little bowls full of can...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Men die. It's practically what they're for.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried. For a year I have called every black tree Ma...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Just about every science whiz can tell you how he or she took apart the TV or the radio when they we...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We think . . . that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Funny how "question" contains the word "quest" inside it, as though any small question asked is a jo...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It's funny, you know, they're always telling me to be a man, take it like a man, act like a man, lik...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It is true that novelists are shameless and obey no decent law, and they are not to be trusted on an...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Robots are like Mars: they need
girls.
Boys won't do;
the memesoup is all wrong. The...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I’ve read science fiction and fantasy all my life – though when you’re a child, they just call...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Have you never known a cruel wind? What an easy, balmy, tropical life you must have! I never tease, ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I'm very touchy feely with my fandom, in part because they've never done me wrong or hurt me...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I am the plague which will burn through the marrow of the Anointed City.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell wa...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
This is my heart—carry it with you. I will dream of you in the dark, and you will taste it in my t...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Recite the Periodic Table of Teatime, in correct order, with Elemental Symbols, please.'
A-Thro...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
When she spoke, the words were rote, taught to her by her captors, dead and empty, and forced. But h...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Whenever one does extraordinary things, someone is bound to try to repeat them for themselves. It's ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You'll forgive the flowery talk, won't you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. V...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived - I do not consider m...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Some thought he was quite wicked, but in truth, he was no more or less than any other crow: enamored...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Well," the Marsh King pursed his beak politely, "at any rate, your manliness need only last for a re...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not slee...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Never assume that a woman is wicked simply because she is ugly and behaves unfavorably towards you. ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smil...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself li...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!"
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. A...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You think I am so wicked, don't you? A monster. Unnatural. How cruel of me to keep you here and ratt...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leuc...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you be...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You wanted Death? This is it. Dirt and decay, nothing more. Death translates us all into earth.” H...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Here’s something I bet you don’t know:
every time someone writes a story about a dragon CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
From that day forward she never used my name. Eventually I forgot it. Mrs. H called me something new...
CATHERYNNE M VALENTE
Your Eve was wise, John. She knew that Paradise would make her mad, if she were to live forever with...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew unti...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.
Nothing to brag on,
but enough for y...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cann...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Everyone has a right to cry uncle on a genre every once in awhile. I've done it myself. Sometime...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I wa...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floati...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incr...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Vampires should be pretty much like mean girls, all the time, only amazing at it. Flawless. They'...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
PERCIVAL: Now, who is telling the story?
SEVERIN: The camera is telling the story. It's watchin...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Night poured itself down my throat. Night was my wine and my meat. Night wed me and bedded me, widow...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Don't be superior. Everyone drinks blood. Blood is a word that means alive. You can do without almos...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girl...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I am not a toy, September! Fairyland cannot just cast me aside when it’s finished playing with me!...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Listen to me. Love is a Yeti. It is bigger than you and frightening and terrible. It makes loud and ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I was better than a punk. I was a protaganist.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE IN THE REFRIGERATOR MONOLOGUES
Why not say it? I'm bursting out of my cocoon. It was all too nice in the past - it never knocked an...
BENITA VALENTE
Inside I have been a stabber, a screamer, a die-er from way back.
BENITA VALENTE
Young singers ask me, "Do I have to live in New York?" I say, "You can live wherever you want-as lon...
BENITA VALENTE
We're Kansas and the other side is Oz. People think no one lives here. But this is a really active n...
LYNN VALENTE
I want to come out of my house and see kids and people enjoying themselves. I grew up in the Marina....
LYNN VALENTE
We want a vibrant neighborhood. We want to activate this big, scary empty space.
LYNN VALENTE
That's part of farming; you just have to deal with what you have. Every year is different.
JOE VALENTE
He asked to borrow my (cell) phone. When he handed it back, it was full of blood.
JOE VALENTE
I am a diamond
But people see me as gold
Honestly, I wanna be silver
M
-I would die for you
-You lie
-If I lie, why do I stand here before and beg on my knees t...
M
Morals; the pathetic answer to authority
Seen two gorillas sharing a banana?
M. COCHET M.
I'm not a leftist; I'm where the righteous ought to be.
M. M. COADY
I believe in working with songs that have personal value for me.
M. WARD
It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When ...
M. WARD
I'm somebody who gets a lot of inspiration from dreams.
M. WARD
When you work on a record for three years, it's a great sense of relief when it is finally out i...
M. WARD
I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to ...
M. WARD
I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal mean...
M. WARD
I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearin...
M. WARD
I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that ba...
M. WARD
I don't really watch TV series because I don't want to get hooked on them and have them suck...
M. WARD
The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
M. WARD
I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough...
M. WARD
I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make ex...
M. WARD
I definitely don't see myself as much of a singer, because my upbringing is really based around ...
M. WARD
I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably ...
M. WARD
It's a luxury to not have to just be performing with other people to have my music heard.
M. WARD
Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
M. WARD
I love the idea that I planned my career. I did not. It started out by getting invitations from arti...
M. WARD
I don't like the way recording to digital sounds. Most of the time, when I'm recording to tw...
M. WARD