“You see him and you think me and I knew if you saw him first you would be afraid because it is… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Love is hungry and severe. Love is not unselfish or bashful or servile or gentle. Love demands everything. Love is not serene,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Love is the Turing test, says Ilet when she is eighty and drawing up the plans for a massive, luminous, lonely ship… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“How I adore you, Marya. How well I chose. Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
You're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“At the bottom of philosophy something very true and very desperate whispers: Everyone is hungry all the time. Everyone is starving. Everyone… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“I just want to be the size of a galaxy so I can eat all the stars and gas giants without them… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
That's Venus, September thought. She was the goddess of love. It's nice that love comes on first thing in the evening, and… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smiling just because… — 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
Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“...she had saved herself for this, stored her love within her so that this book, which could not possibly have been written… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life. — 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 Image
We all just keep moving, September. We keep moving until we stop. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Truly, Mallow yearned to know everything. Curiosity was part of her, like her short blond hair and bitten fingernails.” — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Just tell yourself a story that'll satisfy you and pretend he told it. — 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 get the… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
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 Image
