The Future Is Blue Quotes

“Kid, nobody really gets anywhere in this life. Everybody just picks someplace to hunker down and barricade themselves in. Some of us just got better bricks than others.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Future Is Blue

“You can't get into the real meat of hatred and eternal enmity without love and betrayal, without that, it's just an argument with occasional gun music. The good stuff, the all-obliterating all-annihilating one-for-the-novels mano-a-mano crackling on the pork roast, that has to come, as the hermits will tell you, from attachment.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Future Is Blue

“The dead know how to savor as the living never can.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Future Is Blue

“Everything in the world, it turns out, is escapable except economy.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Future Is Blue

“A sorrow is a resourceful beast.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Future Is Blue

“No one cared who they'd been before, or even who they were now. Sometimes it felt like they lived at the bottom of the world.
People at the bottom of the world mind their business, mostly.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Future Is Blue

“My master lit a candle in the long midwinter's past
Now summer comes and all the fields are burning black and fast.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Future Is Blue

“My heart yields dividends unseen; thou art my soul's annuity.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Future Is Blue