The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland, #4) QUOTES

2 " 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 don't make frog soup with it. "

― Catherynne M. Valente , The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland, #4)

4 " A story is a map of the world. A gloriously colored and wonderful map, the sort one often sees framed and hanging on the wall in a study full of plush chairs and stained-glass lamps: painstakingly lettered, researched down to the last pebble and participle, drawn with dash and flair, with cloud-goddesses in the corners and giant squid squirming up out of the sea...[T]here are more maps in the world than anyone can count. Every person draws a map that shows themselves at the center. "

― Catherynne M. Valente , The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland, #4)

6 " 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 bats. She sticks out her tongue and eats them. "

― Catherynne M. Valente , The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland, #4)

8 " 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 (Fairyland, #4)

10 " I'm not afraid of you!' The wombat yelled. 'I saw you get stuck in the washing machine once. Round and round you went! Who's afraid of something that can't defeat a rinse cycle? "

― Catherynne M. Valente , The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland, #4)

12 " Where human children have years and years in which to grow their hearts and learn to live with them while staying safe from all the troubles a heart hauls with it, a Changeling starts out raw and red and full of longing. Some small ones learn to stitch together a Coat of Scowls r s SCarf of Jokes to hide their Hearts. Some hammer up a Fort of Books to protect theirs. Some walk around naked, though no one can see it but you and I. "

― Catherynne M. Valente , The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland, #4)

14 " It's funny, you know, they're always telling me to be a man, take it like a man, act like a man, like they're afraid if they don't keep reminding me I'll grow up to be a centaur or a dining room table, like they know, somehow, that I'm not a man, like it's a spell they can cast, if they say it enough I'll be tricked into being a man forever."
..."Yes." Tamburlaine nodded. "They always say: be a lady, speak like a lady, behave like a little lady, that's not very ladylike, is it, dear?"
"Well, I won't be a man, or take anything like one or act like one!" The troll inside him rubbed his hands gleefully, crackling with anticipation.
"Come on, then... Don't let's be men, or ladies either. Don't let's act like them or behave like them or speak like them! "

― Catherynne M. Valente , The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland, #4)

16 " Oh, September. My best girl. I shall tell you an awful, wonderful, unhappy, joyful secret: It is like that for everyone. One day you wake up and you are grown. And on the inside, you are no older than the last time you thought Wouldn't it be lovely to be all Grown-Up right this second? "

― Catherynne M. Valente , The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland, #4)

18 " Everybody's strange everywhere. Most of the trick of being a social animal is pretending you're not. But who do you fool? Nobody worth talking to. "

― Catherynne M. Valente , The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland, #4)

20 " She's an old woman possessed of great powers--but aren't all old women possessed of great powers? Occupational hazard, I think. "

― Catherynne M. Valente , The Boy Who Lost Fairyland (Fairyland, #4)