We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines — Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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We all live inside the terrible engine of authority, and it grinds and shrieks and burns so that no one will say: lines on maps are silly.

— Catherynne M. Valente, The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
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