We want a vibrant neighborhood. We want to activate this big, scary empty space.


Lynn Valente

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Well," the Marsh King pursed his beak politely, "at any rate, your manliness need only last for a re...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
She who invented words, and yet does not speak; she who brings dreams and visions, yet does not slee...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Never assume that a woman is wicked simply because she is ugly and behaves unfavorably towards you. ...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Love, I've never been anyone's mother; I don't know how to talk to young or old. But don't stop smil...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
He tried to reconstruct the story in his mind, but it kept getting confused, bleeding into itself li...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Then he is a monster!" the Prince crowed, "and I must slay him at once. The Formula works!"
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. A...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
...her cry is a hook and it catches me in the throat.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You think I am so wicked, don't you? A monster. Unnatural. How cruel of me to keep you here and ratt...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
I perceive that you have a cruel heart, my child. It lies within your breast like a smoldering blade...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
However wretched her origins, she chose freely to continue her crimes against us from the moment she...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
You know how we can be about things which sparkle and shine. We imagine they will put back something...
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
Yes, yes, mistress, I shall go and accomplish your task. Only—I was not only sent to kill the Leuc...
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
The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.
LYNN WESTMORELAND
There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a sp...
LYNN MARGULIS
It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your poten...
LYNN DAVIES
Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.
LYNN MARGULIS
You can't really go into TV thinking, 'Maybe I can make a few bucks doing this thing I'm...
LYNN COADY
I loved being outside. We'd hold lightning bugs in our fingers and pretend they were diamond rin...
LORETTA LYNN
I've gotta stick to my roots, and my roots are blues.
BARBARA LYNN
I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him...
BARBARA LYNN
I decided that playing piano was a little bit too common, you know what I mean?
BARBARA LYNN
You'd always see a lady or a little girl sitting at a piano. I decided I wanted to play somethin...
BARBARA LYNN
I tell my grandchildren - I've got seven of them - to go to college and get that degree first. I...
BARBARA LYNN
In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think...
BARBARA LYNN
I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to per...
BARBARA LYNN
God has taken care of me, and mother dear has taken care of me, too. All my life.
BARBARA LYNN
To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.
LYNN LAVNER
When something is bothering me, I write a song that tells my feelings.
LORETTA LYNN
I was extremely impressed with Lauren Miller. She finally had a more consistent match. I think this ...
AARON LYNN
Lauren Jones again is playing well. She had two bad holes that kind of cost her, but if she gets to ...
AARON LYNN
I was more pleased than with our previous matches. We've kind of started to turn it around a little ...
AARON LYNN
This course wasn't easy. There were a lot of places where you could hit a good shot and get yourself...
AARON LYNN
We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity whic...
LYNN WHITE
Life did not take over the world by combat,
but by networking.
LYNN MARGULIS
God always has another custard pie up his sleeve.
LYNN REDGRAVE