Kaylin

“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

“I can't even say her name. She doesn't even have a name. She is she. She is her. She possesses the pronoun so completely that no one else can touch it. There is only one her in the great stinking gas giant of my heart, fifty feet high. She is a giantess. I am no one. Well, not "no one". I am Anchises St. John. But I am no one's him.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“All the rest of the nonsense a story requires is just a long seduction of the ending.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance

“I've come to think you only get so much bravery in one lifetime and if you spend it too soon, you're all out of fuck it all to hell by the time you really need it.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Radiance