Truth Quote by Catherynne M. Valente — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

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

“How I adore you, Marya. How well I chose. Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don’t leave me.”

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

“Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.”

“Men die. It's practically what they're for.”

“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.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to”

“Everyone always underestimates the idiot.”

“Maybe I had a "secret identity", but then when you think about it, don't we all? A part of ourselves very few people ever get to see. The part we think of as "me". The part that deals with the big stuff. Makes the real choices. The part everything else is a reflection of.”

“What is too absurd to be believed is believed because it is too absurd to be a lie.”

“...the three things I cannot change are the past, the truth, and you.”

“I am not afraid to die; I am only afraid of saying goodbye to you forever.”