Quote of the Day
From the incomparable yuki_onna, who often writes these gems that make parts of my world suddenly turn on their axes and make *sense*.
On the nature of quests:
This was how it was done: you bare your belly to a great beast and endure trials and it all works itself out. There is treasure or a sword. Or a woman. And that thing is yours not because you defeated anything, or because your flesh was hard and unyielding, but because you were worthy of it, worthy all along. The trials and the beast were just a way of telling the world you wanted it, and the world asking in her hard way, hard as bones and hollow mountains, if you really and truly did.
--Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest
On the nature of quests:
This was how it was done: you bare your belly to a great beast and endure trials and it all works itself out. There is treasure or a sword. Or a woman. And that thing is yours not because you defeated anything, or because your flesh was hard and unyielding, but because you were worthy of it, worthy all along. The trials and the beast were just a way of telling the world you wanted it, and the world asking in her hard way, hard as bones and hollow mountains, if you really and truly did.
--Catherynne M. Valente, Palimpsest