Genevieve Valentine

You can't expect people to give you the things you love, unless you know how to ask.

— Genevieve Valentine

“You only need one or two, if the area’s small, but Fairuz never did anything small if she could help it; the…

— Genevieve Valentine

“Then you are the bird, and the bird, and the bird.”

— Genevieve Valentine

“Then she set it aside. (She set everything aside. There was some hollow place inside her that few and grew.)”

— Genevieve Valentine

“It was for Alec she made the wings. It was the only gift she ever gave him; it was the only gift…

— Genevieve Valentine

“When are you going to get a fella?" Lily asks Rose after a year or two of dancing. "I have one who…

— Genevieve Valentine

“Tenderly, as only monsters are tender, he asks, "Are you afraid to be like us, Ying?" "No," Ying says. (How can she…

— Genevieve Valentine

“She sighs, breathing smoke through her lips. "Might as well dance.”

— Genevieve Valentine

“Even Ayar's back tells the right time twice a day, and it was my turn to be right.”

— Genevieve Valentine

This is what happens when you take a step: you are moving closer to what you want.

— Genevieve Valentine

“I don’t know if I’ve vanished by then in this memory, or if it never happened and it’s one of the things…

— Genevieve Valentine

“I had never seen her this way before, and I wondered why until I realized it was the tattoo; I saw, finally,…

— Genevieve Valentine