Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente

“Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.”

“She is dead. Almost certainly dead. Nearly conclusively dead. She is, at the very least, not answering her telephone.”

“I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, and what is inside belongs only to the dead.”