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When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier.

Catherynne M. Valente

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Catherynne M. Valente
Age: 45
Born: 1979
Born: May 5
Literary Critic
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Seattle
Washington
Cat Valente
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This is what comes of having a heart, even a very small and young one. It causes no end of trouble, and that’s the truth.
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Magic does that. It wastes you away. Once it grips you by the ear, the real world gets quieter and quieter, until you can hardly hear it at all.
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You look like a winter night, he had told her when he had given it to her. I could sleep inside the cold of you.
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And it's the wonders I'm after, even if I have to bleed for them.
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