Valente’s Radiance is a solar system-spanning story of love, exploration. Valente, Radiance tags: death 53 likes Like Buck up, baby blowfish. She is, at the very least, not answering her telephone. Or never even get one so much as half-begun. Told using techniques from reality TV, classic film, gossip magazines, and meta-fictional narrative, Catherynne M. Valente 4,612 ratings, 3.72 average rating, 1,137 reviews Open Preview Radiance Quotes Showing 1-30 of 73 She is dead. No, love, in real life you can get all the way to death and never have finished one single story. Half the time you don't even realize that what you're choosing for breakfast is the beginning of a story that won't pan out till you're sixty and staring at the pastry that made you a widower. It just keeps starting and starting until you decide to shut the camera off. Even a murder is the beginning of a criminal. Days, weeks, children, journeys, marriages, inventions. "But that's not how it is in real life, Rinny. Or maybe it's the other way around: one beginning and a whole Easter basket of endings." “How many beginnings can a story have, Daddy?"
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