“Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.”

“Clichs are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes arent bad; they go with the territory.”

“When youre late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-loves-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you dont recover from.”

“Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.”

“Clichés are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes aren’t bad; they go with the territory.”

“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is alw...”

“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”

“...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...”