Astolaine Bombast, catalogue woman, ordered up like a rare steak, 'plees make shore she is pritty and a whyt gurl if you have enny'.Well, she's pritty enough for homesteading but takes no ribbons at the fair. After three dead babies that fellow wanted his money back, pack her up in a box and ship her east to the wife factory.
Catherynne M. ValenteYou look like a winter night", he had told her when he had given it to her. "I could sleep inside the cold of you".
Catherynne M. ValenteYou're not in love if you keep your own heart bricked up behind your bones. You're only playing.
Catherynne M. Valente... but as has been said, September read often, and liked it best when words did not pretend to be simple, but put on their full armor and rode out with colors flying.
Catherynne M. Valente