American author (1979- )
For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
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The Fairyland Series
Do not ruin today with mourning tomorrow.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized, and can only attract their like.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The Fairyland Series
Longing for the fantastic is a human constant, I think.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
interview, Electric Lit, December 1, 2015
Splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it's the fright that makes them splendid at all.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
I have no interest in writing a book about my abusive childhood or my awful marriage, stripped of the folklore and myth through which I saw those things even while they were happening. For me, those images are part of what happened, and part of what makes personal experience into stories that can touch others. It's more interesting to walk between the real world and the constructed world--and more, I don't really think there's much of a difference. Fiction is always fiction. It might as well have manticores in it as divorces.
CATHERYNNE M. VALENTE
interview, Rain Taxi, November 21, 2013