Indistinguishable from Magic Quotes

“Part of the reason fantasy is so reviled, I think, is because it gives us this idea that the world is more than what we’re given, that it can be anything, that the rough material of work and hard going is not the whole substance of this universe. Dreamers don’t make good workers. So you teach them that no matter how miserable, what they’ve got is the best, and the Other is terror and lies. Well, to be bold, fuck that.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Indistinguishable from Magic

“SF raised me, and I think it did a damn fine job. It at least removed a lot of potential sources of anxiety.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Indistinguishable from Magic

“Dreamers don’t make good workers. So you teach them that no matter how miserable, what they’ve got is the best, and the Other is terror and lies. Well, to be bold, fuck that.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Indistinguishable from Magic

“I sell Damascus steel, folded and intricate, dug up from the earth, practically useless, desirable only to lovers of the arcane, the beautiful, the old. No”
― Catherynne M. Valente, Indistinguishable from Magic