The great blessing and great cruelty of youth is that there seems to be time enough. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“How long was it, between the time when you were happy, and the time when you wanted to kill him?” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Vampires should be pretty much like mean girls, all the time, only amazing at it. Flawless. They've had time. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Temperament, you'll find, is highly dependent on time of day, weather, frequency of naps, and whether one has had enough to eat. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
September had never been betrayed before. She did not even know what to call the feeling in her chest, so bitter and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The smell of loving is a difficult one to describe, but if you think of the times when someone has held you… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“What matters is entertainment. Eternity takes forever. The infinite expanse of time just does not know when to quit. The dead fear… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The whole point of growing up is to get big enough to hold the world you want inside you. But it takes… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she woke to this life. It… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When I say forever,' Koschei whispered, 'I mean until the black death of the world. An Ivan means just the present moment,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“When a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant moment before opening,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Oh, but Masha, can’t you see? You are. An Ivan has come. That is like saying, Midnight has struck. It is time… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“After all, growing up is nothing but an argument with your parents on the topic of whether or not you are grown.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floating about. I… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, a girl named September grew very tired indeed of her parents’ house, where she washed the same pink-and-yellow… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Autumn is the very soul of metamorphosis, a time when the world is poised at the door of winter - which is… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You see, the future is a kind of stew, a soup, a vichyssoise of the present and the past. That's how you… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Listen to me. Love is a Yeti. It is bigger than you and frightening and terrible. It makes loud and vicious noises.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“There is always a moment when stories end, a moment when everything is blue and black and silent, and the teller does… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
I reminded myself: when a book lies unopened it might contain anything in the world, anything imaginable. It therefore, in that pregnant… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It’s been me all along,” said September slowly. “Me who gave up my shadow, me who went down into Fairyland-Below and Fairyland-Lower-Than-That… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Do you think I am a foo, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“If you are a monster, stand up. If you are a monster, a trickster, a fiend, If you’ve built a steam-powered wishing… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The Marquess shrugged. “I’m a shadow. I do know I am a shadow, Iago. I know most of the time. It’s only… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Time is the only magic, he said, "And Marids swim through time like the sea. Think: if you hurt yourself, and I… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Just as there are different types of stars—red and white and brown and blue and dwarf and giant and all that lot—there… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Do you think I am a fool, Masha? All this time, and you speak to me as though I were a flighty… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Here’s something I bet you don’t know: every time someone writes a story about a dragon a real dragon dies. Something about… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time on a small, watery, excitable planet called Earth, in a small, watery, excitable country called Italy, a soft-spoken,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
It is such hard work to keep your heart hidden! And worse, by the time you find it easy, it will be… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
One of the many quotes on love..."Love can come only with time and sentience. We learn it as we learn language--and some… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“All time is mean young man. It takes and does not give, it rushes when you wish it would linger and drags… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When I saw him I thought I could curl up inside him and go to sleep and never wake up." "Men are no good… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
“You couldn't ever really fix a sad story. You could only make another. And another. And another, until you found the right one at… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
“He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
“Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
“The cicada lies in the earth for seventeen years. It is warm and dark there, it is soft and wet. Its little legs curl… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
Her heart was bruised by the kiss, smashed and surprised and unsettled by it. September thought kisses were all nice, sweet things asked for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
“September put her hand on the grip of the Rivet Gun. She’d only just gotten it, and she’d promised to take copious notes for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
“You see, the future is a kind of stew, a soup, a vichyssoise of the present and the past. That's how you get the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
“There is a place, September, oh, very far from Pandemonium. A place where it is always autumn, where there is always cider and pumpkin… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
Who are you?" "I am Death," said the creature. "I thought that was obvious." "But you're so small!" "Only because you are small. You… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share
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