The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making (Fairyland, #1)

by Catherynne M. Valente

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

Harsh Airs have excellent memories for things they have ruffled.’

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.’

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girl in want of a Leopard still has feet.

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Hats change everything.

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Magic is funny like that. It’s not a linear thinker. The

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Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers.

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But splendid things are often frightening. Sometimes, it’s the fright that makes them splendid at all.

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you can have grief without adventures, you cannot have adventures without grief.

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‘I . . . I don’t think that’s how evolution works . . .’ said September softly. ‘Oh? Your name Charlie Darwin all sudden-true?’ ‘No, it’s just—’ ‘It’s Survival of Them Who’s Best at Nicking Things, girl!’

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As all mothers know, children travel faster than kisses.

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Something deep in the ancestral memories of humans quakes in sight of a shark’s fin, even if that human grew up in Omaha and never

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The sea makes a girl strong, you know.

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