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“They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran's heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big enough to contain al...”
“You think fairy tales are only for girls? Heres a hintask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasnt just the women. Its the great male fantasyall it takes is one dance to know that shes the o...”
“Some seasons later, the Princess of the kingdom was riding with her handmaiden on the edge of the dark woods. Though once she had been very ill, the Princess had recovered miraculously and was now ...”
“He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.”
“Soul bonds can't be broken. They only bend for a while . . .”
“This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.”
“One does not seek love,' she told him, 'it should find you all on it's own”
“If you only think of yourself, there's no room for another in marriage.”
“The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.”
“The well-intentioned mothers who don't want their children polluted by fairy tales would not only deny them their childhood, with its high creativity, but they would have them conform to the secula...”
“Once upon a time, is how stories begin...”
“Once upon a time, he mightve chased her and tumbled her in the sheets with the promise of more in the future.”
“The End" is just the beginning.”
“Theories about world literature, of which fairy tale is a fundamental part, emphasize the porousness of borders, geographical and inguistic: no frontiercan keep a good story from roaming. It will t...”
“Without your own inner beast tamed ye can never tame the wild ones around ye!”
“Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?" she asked him, indulging herself and letting her head rest on his shoulder. God, he felt good. Her man. Where h...”
“Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, even if you'd thought until just five minutes ago that such stories were, you know, only stories.”
“Magic isnt something that can be explained: it simply is. It takes while it gives. So the spinner steps closer, his outstretched hand demanding I have given you magic, and now it must be paid.”
“You want to know how to stop this killer? Forgive yourself, and helldisappear from your life forever.Thanks. Ill be sure to do that.And I know:1. This is almost the same conversation Ive had with m...”
“I am a lover of love and I am a lover of words, and the two together spin visions of airy castles, but also may pierce the heart of hope. And so I remind you that I am a fool, a poet, and what matt...”
