The Beasts Who Fought for Fairyland Until the Very End and Further Still Quotes

“But the story is no good without a villain. It can’t feel true without a villain. Otherwise, everything would already be as it ought to be, yes? Someone has to be at fault. And if you are the hero, it stands to reason that folk who do not look like you or talk like you or like to eat the same things you like to eat must be the villains. After all, the world is easy and simple, is it not?”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Beasts Who Fought for Fairyland Until the Very End and Further Still

“Perhaps, if you take a long enough view, we are all stronger than our goblins.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Beasts Who Fought for Fairyland Until the Very End and Further Still

“They were all very young, really, too young for all they had seen, but too old not to have seen it.”
― Catherynne M. Valente, The Beasts Who Fought for Fairyland Until the Very End and Further Still