I looked at this man and thought: Oh, how we are going to hurt each other.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: love attraction
You will always go into that tent. You will see her scar and wonder where she got it. You will always be amazed at how one woman can have so much black hair. You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast. You will always run away with her. You will always lose her. You will always be a fool. You will always be dead, in a city of ice, snow falling into your ear. You have already done all of this and will do it again.
Catherynne M. ValenteYou are going to break your promise. I understand. And I hold my hands over the ears of my heart, so that I will not hate you.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: trust betrayal broken-promise
No, not like this, when I have not seen you without your skin on, when I know nothing, when I am not safe. Not you, whose name all my nightmares know.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: trust
I know you loved both he and I, the way a mother can love two sons. And no one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: love forgiveness love-triangle
... relationships required such vigilance, such attention. You had to hold them together by force of will, and other people took up so much space, demanded so much time. It was exhausting.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: solitude relationships relationship other-people
All things are strange which are worth knowing.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: knowledge strange bizarre odd
It is harder, usually, to find a person who wants to walk the streets of me, to taste the teas of my country, to... immigrate, you could say.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: love relationships lovers intimacy
We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.
Catherynne M. ValenteTags: girls woman women heroine girlfriend heroines
I have tried to be a generous narrator and care for my girl as best I can. I cannot help that readers will always insist on adventures...
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