It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
A book is a door, you know. Always and forever. A book is a door into another place and another heart and… — 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
A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“One: A Library Is the Size of the Universe and the Universe Is the Size of a Library. Two: Everyone Is Looking… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I was… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
How much better if life were more like books, if life lied a little more, and gave up its stubborn and boring… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“What is it, Master Calligrapher, that little girls do in the way that spiders weave?" sleeve asked primly. The Calligrapher coughed, for… — 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
“The keeping of lists was for November an exercise kin to repeating of a rosary. She considered it neither obsessive nor compulsive,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“A silent Library is a sad Library. A Library without patrons on whom to pile books and tales and knowing and magazines… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library… — 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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