Quotes by Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland

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Sometimes, magic is like that. It lands on your head like a piano, a stupid, ancient, unfunny joke, and you spend the re — Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
Magic has a logic, like algebra. Once you get to know it, it's easy. If this, then that. You write with a pencil, you do — Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
Don't worry, my little lump of rock. Everybody gets a chance to choose. Or else where would irony come from? — Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
A story is a map of the world. A gloriously colored and wonderful map, the sort one often sees framed and hanging on the — Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
Still life is boring. Never stand still! Jumping bean life! — Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
I shall be as brave as a my Toad, he thought, for my Toad never hides under the bed when she is afraid of lightning or b — Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
all children are required to attend School, which is like a party to which everyone forgot to bring punch, or hats, or f — Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
Now, in the Kingdom of School, to be asked into another child's room is like being asked inside their heart. — Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
Rules are for those who can't think of a better way. — Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland
I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! W — Catherynne M. Valente, The Boy Who Lost Fairyland