"And then another song began, better than that one. Each song was so impossible, so perfect, so complex, so anatomically baffling, and they only grew more heartbreaking and piercing, the special effects more dazzling, the fire in the ice and the psychic manipulation of the audience, that both of them sobbed and sobbed as if they had lost every last thing in the world. Hours passed. The humans watched in an agony of feeling, in a rictus of involuntary ecstasy and horror and grief and artistic nirvana, their bodies shuddering, their brains a sea of flaming blue emotion. The cat watched with semi-mild interest. It was all right, she supposed, if you were into that sort of thing."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Fantasy authorsScience fiction authors from the United StatesNovelists from the United StatesPeople from Seattle20th-century poets from the United States
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Chapter 18 “All the Things That Nobody Sees” (pp. 150-151)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Catherynne_M._Valente
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Catherynne M. Valente
29 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Catherynne M. Valente →
Related Quotes
"And then she’d take off again, with a sort of confused-confounded glance down at me, as though every time she came ho…"
"They are time, and time eats everything but listens to no one."
"Everyone’s always saying love is the element that binds the universe together, but that’s a load of bollocks; it’s co…"
"“Stories are pretty dumb animals. And so aggressive!” I clapped my hands. “Say three ways they’re dumb!” “Let’s see.”…"
"Life is beautiful and life is stupid. This is, in fact, widely regarded as a universal rule not less inviolable than …"
"But in the end, all wars are more or less the same. If you dig down through the layers of caramel corn and peanuts an…"
"I don’t know why you would even bring up the Internet. The xeno-intelligence officer responsible for evaluating your …"
"Everyone you know is a monster, sweetie. We’ve watched a lot of your media, you know. It’s an excellent way to evalua…"
"What was magical at two in the morning was tawdry and cheap and dangerous to your health at two in the afternoon."
"Everything in the universe has rhythm. Everything pulses to a beat laid down by the Big Bang. Everything feels the dr…"