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Catherynne M Valente Quotes

“Sweet as cherries, bright as berries, light of my moony sky.”

September Fairyland Catherynne M Valente The Girl Who

Book:The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Source: The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“It's just that in detective stories, women are usually dead before the curtain goes up. In fairy tales, they're usually alive. Fairy tales are about survival. That's all they're about. The princess lives to get married in the last act. The detective solves the woman; the knight saves her. And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.”

Survival Fairy Tale Gothic Radiance Catherynne M Valente Detective Story

Book:Radiance

Source: Radiance

“When you are this hungry, you cannot even remember who you used to be, she whispered. Who you might have been, if not for the hunger.”

Hunger Deathless Catherynne M Valente Koschei Marya Morevna

Book:Deathless

Source: Deathless

“Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?”

Radiance Wild Things Sleeping Beauty Catherynne M Valente

Book:Radiance

Source: Radiance

“I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.”

Extras Story Radiance Catherynne M Valente

Book:Radiance

Source: Radiance

“Everything in creation is just a trick of the light - the only difference between heaven and hell is who's running those lights, who's got the switch, who knows the cues.”

Light Heaven Hell Creation Radiance Catherynne M Valente

Book:Radiance

Source: Radiance