“I have al the books I could need, and what more could I need than books? I shall only engage in commerce if books are the coin. Come to my door if you have a book – and a good one, not just your great-aunt’s book of doly patterns – and I will give you an egg or a cake or a pair of woolen socks. I am a practical girl, and a life is only so long. It should be spent in as much peace and good eating and good reading as possible and no undue excitement. That is all I am after”
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making By Catherynne M. Valente
