Catherynne M. Valente Quotes About Silver

Quotes about: Silver

• You were so near death that ghosts crowded around you, weeping silver tears, waiting for you with such smiles. You humans, you know, whoever built you sewed irony into your sinews.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Waiting, Tears, Irony

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.313, Macmillan

• The man who knelt before her would have sprung from her needles, even down the ghostly flecks of silver in his hair. She had not known before that she wanted all these things, that she preferred dark hair and a slightly cruel expression, that she wishes for tallness, or that a man kneeling might thrill her.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Dark, Men, Hair

  Catherynne M. Valente (2011). “Deathless”, p.57, Macmillan

• Oh, but Masha, can’t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time for bed, little one. You cannot have both. In war you must always choose sides. One or the other. Silver or black. Human or demon. If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  War, Bridges, Black

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