Beth_Adele

“When one made love to zero
spheres embraced their arches
and prime numbers caught their breath...”
― Raymond Queneau, Pounding the Pavements, Beating the Bushes and Other Pataphysical Poems

“He seemed convinced that children's questions were much more important than those of an adult. He preferred smart questions to smart answers.”
― Yoko Ogawa

“One ought not to judge her: all children are Heartless. They have not grown a heart yet, which is why they can climb high trees and say shocking things and leap so very high grown-up hearts flutter in terror. Hearts weigh quite a lot. That is why it takes so long to grow one. But, as in their reading and arithmetic and drawing, different children proceed at different speeds. (It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.) Some small ones are terrible and fey, Utterly Heartless. Some are dear and sweet and Hardly Heartless At All. September stood very generally in the middle on the day the Green Wind took her, Somewhat Heartless, and Somewhat Grown.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

“He was an answer to a question she'd forgotten to ask.”
― Melissa Marr, Ink Exchange