“Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.”

“Heritage was everything: it was a golden skeleton key, gleaming with power, able to get the wielder through any number of locked doors; it was the christening of the marriage bed with virgin blood ...”

“Maybe it frightened them, to admit that a woman could be master of her fate.”

“Psychological imprisonment was no less uncomfortable than its physical counterpart. In some ways, it was even worse; it provided the illusion of physical freedom, but garnered none of the benefits ...”

“They said the shape-shifters fucked with the enthusiasm of animalsif they didn't devour you with the enthusiasm of one first.”

“A quick and brutal fuck from behind usually served as an effective reminder of where you stood in the pack hierarchy.”

“Mirror mirror on the wall,Show me the one who can conquer it all”

“Ik riep: Doornroosje! Je bent ternauwernood meer van belang! Ternauwernood Nog net wel. Nog niet helemaal niet. Ik houd ternauwernood oneindig veel pijnlijk nauwgezet en desalniettemin niet voor he...”

“Esmeralda? Scarlett turned to the witch next. Dont you want to do magic, again? Of course I do! Its the only thing I dream of. Casting spells Turning people into frogs Genetically engineering my gi...”

“Just as in the body, eye and ear develop as organs of perception, as senses for bodily processes, so does a man develop in himself soul and spiritual organs of perception through which the soul and...”

“The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.”

“An ordinary mirror is silvered at the back but the window of the night train has darkness behind the glass. My face and the faces of other travellers were now mirrored on this darkness in a success...”

“Romance is the deepest thing in life. It is deeper than reality.”

“when you're a kid, they tell you that it's what's on the inside that counts. Looks don't matter . But that's not true. Guys like Phoebus in The Hunchback, or Dorian, or the old Kyle Kingsbury-- the...”

“Every concept of reality is all in our head, belief is what makes truth.”