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Catherynne M. Valente

(1979) Children's Writer United States

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Catherynne M. Valente is a children's writer from the United States, best known for Radiance.

Quick Facts About Catherynne M. Valente

Born: May 5, 1979
Nationality: United States
Profession: Children's Writer
Notable works: Radiance

About Catherynne M. Valente

Catherynne Morgan Valente is an American fiction writer, poet, and literary critic. For her speculative fiction novels she has won the annual James Tiptree, Jr. Award, Andre Norton Award, and Mythopoeic Award. Her short fiction has appeared in Clarkesworld Magazine, the anthologies Salon Fantastique and Paper Cities, and numerous "Year's Best" volumes. Her critical work has appeared in the International Journal of the Humanities as well as other essay collections.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Andre Norton Award Theodore Sturgeon Award Lambda Literary Award Rhysling Award Otherwise Award Hugo Award for Best Fancast Locus Award for Best Young Adult Book Locus Award for Best Novelette

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Locus Award for Best Novella Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature

Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente · Page 25

“Nothing real is pretty, she said. Only a doll is pretty. And a pretty doll drinks out of a tiny cup forever.…

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Beauty

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“I think I look a little like a pumpkin,” whispered September, secretly delighted. “I’m all green and orange.”

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Remember this when you are queen,” he whispered hoarsely. “I moved the earth and the water for you.

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Earth

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A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.

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Add

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“Shall I tell her? Shall I be a kind and merciful narrator and take our girl aside? Shall I touch her new,…

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Children

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I hope, in years to come, I shall hold my heart up and it will be a pane of clear glass, through…

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Clear

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“We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.”

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Belonging

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She liked anything orange: leaves; some moons; marigolds; chrysanthemums; cheese; pumpkin, both in pie and out; orange juice; marmalade. Orange is bright…

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Bird

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“Very well, but I have tried to be a generous narrator and care for my girl as best I can. I cannot…

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Adventure

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“In addition to all the other kinds of magic there is Yes Magic and No Magic, and Mallow is wonderful fierce at…

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Magic

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Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. ”I have come for the girl…

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Black

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These are the folk who may pass into the kingdom of heaven: the grief-stricken, lovers, scholars of a certain obsessive disposition. Brute…

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Beast

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“After all, growing up is nothing but an argument with your parents on the topic of whether or not you are grown.…

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Arguing

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“he had not guessed how much of the body of a Quest was simply walking .”

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Quest

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She did not want to read this book from start to finish, or rather, she thought perhaps it did not want her…

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Art

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“ We think . . . that girls ought to sing. They ought to sing, and dance while they're singing. But we…

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Dance

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“But you know, a wizard with black hair and a thick mustache put a curse on Moscow, and Petrograd, too, so that…

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Black hair

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“I suppose you think you know what autumn looks like. Even if you live in the Los Angeles dreamed of by September’s…

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Autumn

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What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?

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Boxing

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“You can't blame a book for its story.”

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Book

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..what came before has dissolved from me, lost like milk teeth. But I think, rather, that it has always been as it…

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Accepting

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