The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making Quotes

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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.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Why do you need that thing?" September asked. "None of the airports back home have them." "They do. You just can't see them right," Betsy Basilstalk said with a grin. "All customs agents have them, otherwise, why would people agree to stand in line a...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Truly, Autumn is my season,” the scarlet beast chorted. “Spring and Summer and Winter all begin with such late letters! But Autumn and Fall, I have loved best, because they are best to love.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up together like a stack of cards. That is what it is like, the awful, wonderful brightness of Fairy colors. Try to smell the hard, pa...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

But as you get older, your courage attracts gunk and crusty things and dirt and fear and knowing how bad things can get and what pain feels like. By the time you're half-grown, your courage barely moves at all, it's so grunged up with living. So ever...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Because I’m a cat. A big one, the Panther of Rough Storms, in fact. But still a cat. If there’s a saucer of milk to spill, I’d rather spill it than let it lie. If my mistress grows absent-minded and leaves a ball of yarn about, I’ll bat it be...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

But cheating has always been the purview of fairies, and as we are about to enter their domain, we ought to act in accordance with local customs.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Because she did not look behind, September did not see the smoky-glass casket close itself primly up again. She did not see it bend in half until it cracked, and Death hop up again, quite well, quite awake, and quite small once more. She certainly di...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Of course not. No one is chosen. Not ever. Not in the real world. You chose to climb out of your window and ride on a leopard. You chose to get a witch’s Spoon back, and to make friends with a wyvern. You chose to trade your shadow for a child’s ...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Such lonely, lost things you find on your way. It would be easier, if you were the only one lost. But lost children always find each other, in the dark, in the cold. It is as though they are magnetized and can only attract their like. How I would lik...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

So most people go around with grimy machinery, when all it would take is a bit of spit and polish to make them paladins once more, bold knights and true.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Death is not a checkmate…it is more like a carnival trick. You cannot win, no matter how you move your Queen.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

It's Survival of Them Who's Best at Nicking Things, girl!

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

The sun hitched up her trousers and soldiered on up into the sky. September squinted at it and wondered if the sun here was different than the sun in Nebraska. It seemed gentler, more golden, deeper. The shadows it cast seemed more profound. But Sept...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

Wishes of one's old life wither and shrivel like old leaves if they are not replaced with new wishes when the world changes. And the world always changes. Wishes get slimy, and their colors fade, and soon they are just mud, like all the rest of the m...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

That’s what happens to friends, eventually. They leave you. It’s practically what they’re for.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else.

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making

I have made calculations that would beggar your soul. What is it that villains always say at the end of stories? You and I are more alike than you think? Well,” the Marquess took September’s hand in hers and very gently kissed it. “We are. Oh, ...

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making