Catherynne M. Valente
Catherynne M. Valente
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NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth5 May 1979
CountryUnited States of America
fall sides criminals
Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.
sleep winter night
You look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".
fun laughter heart
Marya Morevna, we are better at this than you are. We can hold two terrible ideas at once in our hearts. Never have your folk delighted us more, been more like family. For a devil, hypocrisy is a parlour game, like charades. Such fun, and when the evening is done we shall be holding our bellies to keep from dying of laughter.
labyrinth world enough
A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.
privilege bitterness born
I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
men dies
Men die. It's practically what they're for.
dominion
Death hath no dominion.
girl eye men
Slowly, without taking his eyes from hers, the man in the black coat knelt before her. ”I have come for the girl in the window,” he said, and his eyes filled with tears
selfish mates i-am-selfish
I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
property
Family is a transitive property.
people wicked tools
There is no such thing as a people who are all wicked or even all good. Everyone chooses. But even they, even they looked at people and saw only tools. No one is a cup for another to drink from.
latin government language
It's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
war cutting cake
In both marriage and war you must cut up the things people say like a cake and eat only what you can stomach.
snow ends living-happily
...snow is the beginning and the end of everything...