Kaylin

“It's just that in detective stories, women are usually dead before the curtain goes up. In fairy tales, they're usually alive. Fairy tales are about survival. That's all they're about. The princess lives to get married in the last act. The detective solves the woman; the knight saves her.
And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“Names aren’t loners, they’re connected, even in real life. You name your kids for someone dead or what you hope they will become or what you wish you were and your parents did the same to you and that big, glittering net of names tells the story of the whole world. Names are load-bearing struts. Names are destiny.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“You see her as you see anyone in this world: distorted, warped, reflected, refracted, contorted, mutilated by time.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“The moment a child answers the question ‘What do you want to be when you grow up?’ he is halfway to being an adult.”
― Geraldine McCaughrean, Peter Pan in Scarlet