Angelina

“All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending. You throw out murders and reversals and heroes and detectives and spies, juggle love affairs and near escapes and standoffs with marvellous guns, kidnappings and sorcery and comic relief and gravediggers and princesses and albino dragons, and it's all just to lure an ending into your bed.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“I remember she sang the opening aria from Her Last Nocturne and I saw the night sky pour out of her mouth. Every time I wemt to hear her sing afterward, even months afterward, I saw the same thing. Blackness and stars flooding her mouth and splashing onto the boards in great gouts. Galaxies and the void dripping off her chin. Her teeth burning. I told her about it on a night in December and she whispered I know it, baby. I see it, too. That's my insides coming out.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“Being on time is a filthy habit practised only by roosters and retirees.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“No night was perfect for treason, but this one came close.”
― Joan He, Descendant of the Crane