BiographyType: Poet, novelist, literary critic Born: 0 Died: Catherynne M. Valente is the New York Times bestselling author of over two dozen works of fiction and poetry, including "Palimpsest", "the Orphan’s Tales series", "Deathless", "Radiance", and the crowdfunded phenomenon "The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Own Making". She is the winner of the Andre Norton, Tiptree, Mythopoeic, Rhysling, Lambda, Locus and Hugo awards. She has been a finalist for the Nebula and World Fantasy Awards. She lives on an island off the coast of Maine with a small but growing menagerie of beasts, some of which are human. |
I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.
We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
What happens to anything beautiful? Viy ate it up.
I expect everyone in Boston has something like that ring, which is why I am glad I have never been to Boston.
Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears.
In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
Her father’s shadow looked sadly down at her. “You can never forget what you do in a war, September my love. No one can. You won’t forget your war either.
The ghosts will eat everything because the bellies of ghosts want the whole world, just to fill one tiny corner.
Your past's a private matter, sweetheart. You just keep it locked up in xbox where it can't hurt anyone.
Death stands behind every bride, every groom.
I thought: this is how you make a human being. A human being is beautiful and sick. A human being glitters and starves.
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