“ Love me, and I will laugh for you, and if you can make me laugh, my laughter will, quite simply, ransom the whole of the world from death. Catherynne M. Valente
“ September laughed and her laugh sounded like a roar; as if she had never been able to properly laugh in her whole life, only giggle or chuckle or grin, and now that she could do it right, now that her… Catherynne M. Valente
“ You poor girl, what sort of aged, unfriendly Libraries have you met in short life? A silent Library is a sad Library ... A Library should be full of exclamations! ... A Library should be full of now-j… Catherynne M. Valente
“ My mother lived alone in the ruins of the great Library, which was called Compleat, and a very passionate and dashing Library indeed. Under the slightly blackened rafters and more than slightly caved-… Catherynne M. Valente
“ She sounds like someone who spends a lot of time in libraries, which are the best sorts of people. Catherynne M. Valente
“ Someone ought to write a novel about me,” said Lebedeva loftily. “I shouldn’t care if they lied to make it more interesting, as long as they were good lies, full of kisses and daring escapes and the o… Catherynne M. Valente
“ I suppose you think you know what autumn looks like. Even if you live in the Los Angeles dreamed of by September’s schoolmates, you have surely seen postcards and photographs of the kind of autumn I m… Catherynne M. Valente
“ For though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do t… Catherynne M. Valente
“ He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew until no man could be called his equal. Catherynne M. Valente
“ You only had to choose which me to talk to, for, you know, we all change our manners, depending on who has come to chat. One doesn’t behave at all the same way to a grandfather as to a bosom friend, t… Catherynne M. Valente
“ We treat our stone wives with much more care than they treat their warm ones, anyway. I personally dust mine once a week, and I know Khaamil gives them presents when I am not looking. These are yours… Catherynne M. Valente
“ But she never could keep it straight. All the letters, the acronyms, the codes, the colors, changing like musical chairs, every week, every month. Games demons play. It meant nothing to her, except in… Catherynne M. Valente
“ I tell them: don’t depend on a woodsman in the third act. I tell them: look for sets of three, or seven. I tell them: there’s always a way to survive. I tell them: you can’t force fidelity. I tell the… Catherynne M. Valente
“ I will never be without information,' she determined. 'I will do better than my sisters. If a bird or any other beast comes out of that uncanny republic where husbands are grown, I will see him with h… Catherynne M. Valente
“ She was not filled up with the sight of him, the way she had seen her sisters fill up, like silk balloons, like wineskins. Instead, he seemed to land heavily within her, like a black stone falling. Catherynne M. Valente
“ You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast. Catherynne M. Valente
“ But luck withered by conservative, tired, riskless living can be plumped up again--after all, it was only a bit thirsty for something to do. Catherynne M. Valente
