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CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Stories,' the green-eyed Sigrid said, unperturbed, 'are like prayers. It does not matter when you be...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE She was beautiful and terrifying, savage and pure.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE You wanted Death? This is it. Dirt and decay, nothing more. Death translates us all into earth.” H...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE It is best in the end to let women see to their own vengeance.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Maidens stand still, they are lovely statues and all admire them. Witches do not stand still. I was ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I am a Prince," he replied, being rather dense. "It is the function of a Prince—value A—to kill ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Here’s something I bet you don’t know:
every time someone writes a story about a dragon CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE From that day forward she never used my name. Eventually I forgot it. Mrs. H called me something new...
CATHERYNNE M VALENTE Your Eve was wise, John. She knew that Paradise would make her mad, if she were to live forever with...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE He didn't even know how to talk about it. He had practiced not talking about the things he knew unti...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I got a heart like a half bottle of no-label whiskey.
Nothing to brag on,
but enough for y...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE No one belongs when they are new to this world. All children are Changelings.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Readers will always insist on adventures, and though you can have grief without adventures, you cann...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Everyone has a right to cry uncle on a genre every once in awhile. I've done it myself. Sometime...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Every writing teacher I ever had except for one told me I was an awful writer, had no idea what I wa...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I have always been delighted when told there was a piece of fanfic inspired by a book of mine floati...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I try to hurt myself, to sprain something, writing every novel and story, because I'm stretching...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Fantasy is my heart and love. And I just want to play in that garden for the rest of my life.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Every morning is a battle between the superego and the id, and I am a mere foot soldier with mud and...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Monsters almost always are culture's way of working out their fears and are thus inherently incr...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Vampires should be pretty much like mean girls, all the time, only amazing at it. Flawless. They'...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE For most of us, fanfiction is a non-issue. Even for midlist writers. We will never be popular enough...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE PERCIVAL: Now, who is telling the story?
SEVERIN: The camera is telling the story. It's watchin...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Night poured itself down my throat. Night was my wine and my meat. Night wed me and bedded me, widow...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I have all the books I could need, and what more could I need than books?
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Don't be superior. Everyone drinks blood. Blood is a word that means alive. You can do without almos...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I see you go bare-shod. This is most likely extremely sensible. Shoes are no end of trouble for girl...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE I am not a toy, September! Fairyland cannot just cast me aside when it’s finished playing with me!...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Listen to me. Love is a Yeti. It is bigger than you and frightening and terrible. It makes loud and ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE Compromise is only comfortable to the man who is outside the presence of God.
JOE JOE DAWSON Almost All Christians want to taste the fruits of revival but only a few will do what's necessary to...
JOE JOE DAWSON I've been waiting over 40 years to come to Cyprus, and it has not disappointed - the birthplace ...
JOE BIDEN I don't think a man has to go around shouting and play-acting to prove he is something. And a re...
JOE FRAZIER When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver.
JOE THEISMANN If you need more than 10 rounds to hunt, and some argue they hunt with that many rounds, you shouldn...
JOE BIDEN Global warming is not a conqueror to kneel before - but a challenge to rise to. A challenge we must ...
JOE LIEBERMAN Competing at the highest level is not about winning. It's about preparation, courage, understand...
JOE TORRE You can't go to a negotiating table pointing a gun, but you've got to keep it over your shou...
JOE SLOVO So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that'...
JOE ARPAIO Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it.
JOE PATERNO You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true profes...
JOE PATERNO I don't believe there's two sides to every story. It's black and white. There's righ...
JOE WURZELBACHER Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through...
JOE CRAFT If I keep God first in my life, if I keep my family and friends as second, and then I keep my occupa...
JOE GIBBS Sometimes, if you wear suits for too long, it changes your ideology.
JOE SLOVO After my first knee operation, in January of '65 before I went to the Jets, Dr. James Nicholas t...
JOE NAMATH I am a gentleman. My natural inclination is to be on my best behavior.
JOE WILSON Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
FAT JOE I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect ...
FAT JOE I love to eat. If I could eat everything in the world and still be healthy or wouldn't catch a h...
FAT JOE Food is like a legal drug. You can take 50 cents and walk into the store and buy a Twinkie and get h...
FAT JOE If you really analyze my music, there is a lot of violence in my music because the Bronx, at the era...
FAT JOE