Catherynne M. Valente Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Book, Stories, Way

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.49, Macmillan

• A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and another world.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Book, Heart, Doors

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.203, Macmillan

• A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Book, Joy, Library

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.459, Macmillan

• I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Book, Needs

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “The Girl Who Ruled Fairyland--For a Little While: A Tor.Com Original”, p.13, Macmillan

• I don’t want to be a Princess,” she said finally. “You can’t make me be one.” She knew very well what became of Princesses, as Princesses often get books written about them. Either terrible things happened to them, such as kidnappings and curses and pricking fingers and getting poisoned and locked up in towers, or else they just waited around till the Prince finished with the story and got around to marrying her. Either way, September wanted nothing to do with Princessing.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Book, Princess, Want

  Catherynne M. Valente (2012). “The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There”, p.107, Macmillan

• I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening, contains everything. Every possibility, both perfect and putrid. Surely such mysteries are the most enticing things You grant us in this mortal mere -- the fruit in the garden, too, was like this. Unknown, and therefore infinite. Eve and her mate swallowed eternity, every possible thing, and made the world between them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Lying, Book, Garden

• She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her to. Instead she practiced the art of bibliomancy, trusting the book to show her what it wanted her to know.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Art, Book, Want

• How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring adherence to the way things can be, and thought a little more imaginatively about the way things might be.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Book, Stubborn, Littles

• These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute beasts. Women who have become as men and men who have become as women. Writers of books with long titles. Only those knights who have failed to touch the Grail. Industrious women. You, and I, and a boy named Oleg, and a girl with blue hair.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, Grief, Book

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin