Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 May 1979
CountryUnited States of America
heart stubborn want
She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
book stories way
Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.
people library sound
She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people.
girl cat years
She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out her girlhood like death.
book joy library
A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection.
keys
Where there is a Key, there is yet hope.
prayer stories green
Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words.
reading heart growth
It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.
profound metamorphosis
Metamorphosis is the most profound of all acts.
happens
That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.
betrayal hate heart
You are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.
country secret world
The world is not made of countries and outsiders. We are all just humans, and most of us fools and all of us longing for more than we have, to know more than we know--and yet even that is not enough, for if we knew everything we would only be disappointed that there was not one more secret to uncover.
sleep sound pioneers
To touch a person...to sleep with a person...is to become a pioneer," she whispered then, "a frontiersman at the edge of their private world, the strange, incomprehensible world of their interior, filled with customs you could never imitate, a language which sounds like your own but is really totally foreign, knowable only to them.
strong heart long-ago
Hearts set about finding other hearts the moment they are born, and between them, they weave nets so frightfully strong and tight that you end up bound forever in hopeless knots, even to the shadow of a beast you knew and loved long ago.