A marriage is a private thing. It has its own wild laws, and secret histories, and savage acts, and what passes between married people is incomprehensible to outsiders. We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying, but what we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.
Catherynne M. ValenteFor though, as we have said, all children are heartless, this is not precisely true of teenagers. Teenage hearts are raw and new, fast and fierce, and they do not know their own strength. Neither do they know reason or restraint, and if you want to know the truth, a goodly number of grown-up hearts never learn it.
Catherynne M. ValenteYou're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.
Catherynne M. ValenteIt's Latin, which is an excellent language for mischief-making, which is why governments are so fond of it.
Catherynne M. ValenteMarya pinned out her childhood like a butterfly. She considered it the way a mathematician considers an equation.
Catherynne M. Valente