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“The whole point of growing up is to get big enough to hold the world you want inside you. But it takes a long time, and you really must eat your vegetables, and most often you have to make the world you want out of yourself.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Soared Over Fairyland and Cut the Moon in Two