"But the thought arrived inside her like a train: Marya Morevna, all in black, here and now, was a point at which all the women she had been met—the Yaichkan and the Leningrader and the chyerti maiden; the girl who saw the birds, and the girl who never did—the woman she was and the woman she might have been and the woman she would always be, forever intersecting and colliding, a thousand birds falling from a thousand oaks, over and over."Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
(Source: litmusings)
"You will live as you live anywhere. With difficulty, and grief. Yes, you are dead. And I and my family and everyone, always, forever. All dead, like stones. But what does it matter? You still have to go to work in the morning. You still have to live."Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
(Source: litmusings)
"Once we love, we cannot revoke it,’ she said. ‘We can only glory in what it brings — pain as well as joy, grief as well as hope."Marie Brennan, Midnight Never Come
(Source: litmusings)
"All the tears women shed, they leave no mark on the world…"Marion Zimmer Bradley, The Mists of Avalon
(Source: litmusings)
In the Night Garden (The Orphan’s Tales #1) by Catherynne M. Valente
(Source: litmusings)
"Stories…are like prayers. It does not matter when you begin, or when you end, only that you bend a knee and say the words."Catherynne Valente, In the Night Garden
(Source: litmusings)
Polish cover of Deathless by Catherynne M. Valente
(Source: litmusings)
The German, Dutch and Spanish “The Night Circus” covers
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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway—a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for this purpose by their mercurial instructors. Unbeknownst to them, this is a game in which only one can be left standing, and the circus is but the stage for a remarkable battle of imagination and will. Despite themselves, however, Celia and Marco tumble headfirst into love—a deep, magical love that makes the lights flicker and the room grow warm whenever they so much as brush hands.
True love or not, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone involved, from the cast of extraordinary circus performers to the patrons, hang in the balance, suspended as precariously as the daring acrobats overhead.
Written in rich, seductive prose, this spell-casting novel is a feast for the senses and the heart.The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
