"A library is never complete. That’s the joy of it. We are always seeking one more book to add to our collection."

-The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There by Catherynne M. Valente

doomed by the bloody narrative

unknown but likely @/scribbleshrimp on tiktok // richard siken, wishbone // @achillics on tumblr // karese burrows, persephone writes a poem // sandra cisneros, one last poem for richard // @theskeletonprior on tumblr // catherynne m. valente, deathless // catherynne m. valente, deathless // richard siken, snow and dirty rain

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

Catherynne M. Valente

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

Catherynne M. Valente

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

Catherynne M. Valente

Remember this …I moved the earth and the water for you.

Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

there are days I stare at the stars and pray with all my heart— please, let me be a child again, let me try once more. this time i will not regret, this time i will do it right.

Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente // two slow dancers, Mitski // in image // in image // the great war - taylor swift // in image // erica e. goode?? not sure. // this wordpress

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

~Catherynne M. Valente

I burn, I freeze; I am never warm. I am rigid; I forgot softness because it did not serve me.

Catherynne M. Valente, from Deathless

A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.

-- Catherynne M. Valente

(Roma)

“Nice and neat, tragedy. Restful, too. In a drama, with its traitors, its desperate villains, its innocent victims, avengers, devoted followers and glimmers of hope, death becomes something terrible, a kind of accident. You might have arrived in time with the police. But tragedy's so peaceful! For one thing, everybody's on a par. All innocent! It doesn't matter if one person kills and the other is killed - it's just a matter of casting. And above all, tragedy's restful, because you know there's no lousy hope left. You know you're caught, caught at last like a rat in a trap, with all heaven against you. And the only thing left to do is shout - not moan, or complain, but yell out at the top of your voice whatever it was you had to say. What you've never said before. What perhaps you didn't even know till now… And to no purpose - just so as to tell it to yourself... to learn it, yourself. In drama you struggle, because you hope you're going to survive. It's utilitarian - sordid. But tragedy is gratuitous. Pointless, irremediable. Fit for a king!” —Jean Anouilh, Antigone

Forests have secrets, he said gently. It’s practically what they’re for. To hide things. To separate one world from another. 

Catherynne M. Valente, from ‘Deathless’

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

Catherynne M. Valente

Remember this …I moved the earth and the water for you.

Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless

You 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. Valente, Deathless

You 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. Valente, Deathless