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“A map shows maybes.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

“You haven't met your Way yet. It hasn't so much as kissed your hand! You haven't even at the door of the hall where your Way dances. But look here, look see, I've got them, I've caught them up just for you, a big bouquet of anywhere you want to go. Just pick a bloom, my girl, hold it to your pretty nose.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two

“Tamburlaine's house seemed more a place where books kept their people than where people kept their books.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

“Oh, September. My best girl. I shall tell you an awful, wonderful, unhappy, joyful secret: It is like that for everyone. One day you wake up and you are grown. And on the inside, you are no older than the last time you thought Wouldn't it be lovely to be all Grown-Up right this second?”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland