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Catherynne M. Valente

You’ll forgive the flowery talk, won’t you? Our family does so love to be told they are beautiful. Vanity is an old and venerable habit.

Catherynne M. Valente

Are you the only human in the world then? And all of the rest of us monsters?

Catherynne M. Valente

Monsters almost always are culture’s way of working out their fears.

catherynne-m-valente, fantasy, inspirational, monsters

Catherynne M. Valente

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.

death, laugh, love, ransom

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 laughing had grown up and put bells on, it had become the most boisterous, rowdy roar you ever heard.

chuckle, giggle, grin, laugh, roar

Catherynne M. Valente

The tales lovers tell each other about how they met are hushed and secret things. They change year by year, for we all meet many times as we grow up and become different and new and exciting people–and this never stops, even for a minute, even when we are ninety.

growing-old, growing-up, love, lovers, relationships

Catherynne M. Valente

The Glasshobs built it to keep an eye on the stars, who have a tendency to run off on adventures and forget about how much we down-below folks need to navigate and cast horoscopes and meet lovers on balconies.

lovers, secret, stars

Catherynne M. Valente

She was … unhappy. It was part of her, you could not separate her from it. She was sad the way a horse is strong or a bird flies.

Catherynne M. Valente

I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after.

books, food, happiness, life, reading

Catherynne M. Valente

It appeals to the higher nature of the self to put aside food which once lived – I do not consider myself food, why should I ask all other creatures to consider themselves so?

food, omnivore, vegetarian

Catherynne M. Valente

How we would like to argue with September, and tell her that in the waiting lies the pleasure! That we here in the world of sensible folk know how to wait without twisted-up bellies and tapping feet and wishing for the sun to hurry up and rise and set. That a clever person is never bored, and a bored person is never clever. But though I am sly, I am a trickster, I am even cruel—I cannot lie.

bored, clever, impatient, lies, nervous, patience, pleasure, sly, trickster, waiting, yearning

Catherynne M. Valente

Husbands lie, Masha. I should know; I’ve eaten my share. That’s lesson one. Lesson number two: among the topics about which a husband is most likely to lie are money, drink, black eyes, political affiliation, and women who squatted on his lap before and after your sweet self.