Quotes

I was reading The Girl Who Fell Beneath Fairyland and Led the Revels There, by Catherynne M. Valente, and I stumbled across a quote that I really liked:

"September expected that destinies, which is how she thought of professions, simply landed upon one like a crown, and ever after no one questioned or fretted over it, being sure of one's own use in the world. it was only that somehow her crown had not yet appeared. She did hope it would hurry up."

I don't know if that is how destinies work, but I sure wish that I knew. Maybe then I could get mine to come along. And lest you worry that this is a spoiler for the whole book, well, it isn't. But you should read the book. The whole time I was reading, I kept thinking, "How did the author come up with this? It is so original and clever!"

And I hope that Ms. (Mrs.?) Valente doesn't mind that I used a quote from her book.