“ The rapt pupil will be forgiven for assuming the Tsar of Death to be wicked and the Tsar of Life to be virtuous. Let the truth be told: There is no virtue anywhere. Life is sly and unscrupulous, a bla… Catherynne M. Valente
“ I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories. A war story is a black space. On the one side is before and on the other side is after, a… Catherynne M. Valente
“ Their happiness was the kind which is fashioned of the comfortable disorder of sauvignon bottles and coffee cups in the sink, paperback thrillers with split spines on the nightstand, bathrobes hung ha… Catherynne M. Valente
“ You should always listen to minotaurs. Anybody with four stomachs has to have a firm grip on reality. Catherynne M. Valente
“ 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… Catherynne M. Valente
“ I wonder sometimes what the memory of God looks like. Is it a palace of infinite rooms, a chest of many jeweled objects, a long, lonely landscape where each tree recalls an eon, each pebble the life o… Catherynne M. Valente
“ However unlikely it may seem, it is the truth and, therefore, one hundred percent likely. Catherynne M. Valente
“ This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth. Catherynne M. Valente
“ War is not for winning, Masha," sighed Koschei, reading the tracks of supply lines, of pincer strategies, over her shoulder. "It is for surviving. Catherynne M. Valente
