Quotes from Catherynne M. Valente

What the sign meant. To lose your heart. When I go home, I shall leave mine here, and I don't think I shall ever have it back." -September

As all reptiles know, the bigger the spectacles, the wiser the wearer, and the Scientiste wore the biggest pair ever built. But even the wisest of men may die, and that is especially true when the wisest of men has a fondness for industrial chemicals. So went my mother's patron, in a spectacular display of Science." "That's very sad," sighed September. "Terribly sad! But grief is wasted on the very roasted.

It's hard, dusty work, but Papo always says if you don't ride the present like the devil it'll get right away from you because it's a feral little creature with a terrible personality and no natural predators.

Surely you didn't think deathless meant dickless.

Lugudel on kombeks oma iseloomu muuta. Nad on taltsutamatud, nad ei allu reeglitele ja kalduvad huligaansusele ja kustutuskummide loopimisele. Sellepärast tuleb nad paksudesse, rasketesse raamatutesse kinni panna, et nad ei pääseks välja ega teeks pahandust.

Draw the world the way you want it. Draw it and it will be.

humans are hideous, pain-guzzling, pollution-spouting space monsters

You have to be able to see the world as a whole to bear it—to see the Queerness that moves in every bit

circled a ball of blazing gas

Where's the nerdy shy Predator scientist who figured out how to build a spaceship while all the big jock Predators were down the pub ripping one another's spines out, eh?

You and I, we're no good at telling a story straight. It won't come off right. Like a dog reciting a sonnet. Impressive, but how much better to let him howl?

You're in a story and the body writing it is an asshole. You had to know that, given the action. The story you're in tells you like firing a gun…[I] had enough of it, of things happening one after another and no end in sight. Of reversals and falling in love and tragic flaws and by God if I see another motif in my business I will shoot it dead.

Aamu, Aamu, I am alive I am so long already I am so black in the black of you I am hungry I am hunger give me seal and salmon and seagull give me love and memory and all the songs you know I cannot get enough I cannot ever get enough, Aamu, I already have teeth so many teeth like yours, Aamu, feed me forever, let me bite down into your soul and shake and shake never let go And I love the song of my son moaning and echoing in the cage of my skeleton where he is safe.

Septembri maailmas algasid paljud asjad pan -iga. Pandeemia , pangaea , panatsea , panoptikum . Need olid suured sõnad, seda kindlasti, aga nagu öeldud, luges September palju ja talle meeldis, kui sõnad ei üritanud lihtsad välja paista, vaid tõmbasid selga täisvarustuses soomusrüü ja kappasid lippude lehvides lahinguväljale.

All hands drowned, except the Red Hound of Mykenos, who bit the sea until it spit him back. Old

They want only their private toys and candies, and will not share.

SF raised me, and I think it did a damn fine job. It at least removed a lot of potential sources of anxiety.

He considers it for a moment and spits out the seeds, which sprout, quickly, into tiny junkblossoms sizzling with recursive algorithms. The algorithms wriggle through thorny vines, veins of clotted pink juice.

Kõik emad teavad, et lapsed jooksevad kiiremini kui õhusuudlused. Õigupoolest on õhusuudluse kiirus kosmiline konstant, nagu ütleks doktor Fallow. Lapse kiirusel ei ole piire.

September shut her eyes several times and opened them again, just to be sure, just to be certain she was back in Fairyland, that she wasn't simply knocked silly by her fall.

Everything in this place was livid and lurid and living, and when he loved her and hurt her all at once she lived, too, higher and harder than she had thought she could. Yes, she thought, magic is like that, when it comes.

még ha le is vetsz minden egyes ruhadarabot, rajtad maradnak a titkaid, a történeted, a valódi neved. Meglehet?sen nehéz valóban mezítelenné válni. Keményen meg kell dolgoznod érte. Megfürdeni nem jelent egyet a p?reséggel, nem igazán. Csak megmutatod a b?rödet. A rókáknak és a medvéknek is van b?rük, így aztán nem szégyellem magam, ha ?k sem.

My master lit a candle in the long midwinter's past Now summer comes and all the fields are burning black and fast.

These words were small and they only meant what they said, not how they felt before he said them. He nearly wept with the frustration of it.