"I do not want to be human. I want to be myself. They think I’m a lion, that I will chase them. I..."

“I do not want to be human. I want to be myself. They think I’m a lion, that I will chase them. I will not deny that I have lions in me. I am the monster in the wood. I have wonders in my house of sugar. I have parts of myself I do not yet understand.”

- Catherynne M. Valente, from Silently and Very Fast (via lifeinpoetry)