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“But she never could keep it straight. All the letters, the acronyms, the codes, the colors, changing like musical chairs, every week, every month. Games demons play. It meant nothing to her, except...”
“Now fairy stories are at risk too, like the forests. Padraic Column has suggested that artificial lighting dealt them a mortal wound: when people could read and be productive after dark, something ...”
“In answer, the news of the Gospel is that extraordinary things happen. ... Lear goes berserk on a heath but comes out of it for a few brief hours every inch a king. Zaccheus climbs up a sycamore tr...”
“Sometimes I look at this world and it moves me to tears. The joy and terror and the mad bloody drama of it all. I wonder why they never seem to really see it. Maybe one lifetime just isn't enough. ...”
“Please tell a story about a girl who gets away.I would, even if I had to adapt one, even if I had to make one up just for her. Gets away from what, though?From her fairy godmother. From the happy e...”
“I believe that our lives, just like fairy tales - the stories that have been written by us humans, through our own experiences of living - will always have a Hero and a Heroine, a Fairy Godmother a...”
“The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.”
“the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the nursery, as shabby or old-fashioned furni...”
“Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.”
“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of tellers.”
“The happily ever after thing. It's great when she marries the prince or whatever and they say that. But they just don't show the part where there's a revolution and they drag her to the guillotine.”
“Goldenrod Moram had a first name that sounded like it belonged in the middle of a fairy tale, where she would be the dazzling princess in need of rescuing.”
“It was our passion for words and our ardent desire to write that drew me and Michael together, and the same that drove us apart.Michael wanted to be a great playwright, like the former master Molir...”
“To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case.To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive case that is, to be killed.This is the moral of the fairy tale about the perfe...”
“I'm not a princess but Ryan is a knight, he just belongs to someone else.”
“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.”
“In Russian fairy tales, the narrative flows a little differently. In those stories, you wont find a tale for Cinderella, one for Snow White, one for Rapunzel. Instead, a peculiar cast of characters...”
“Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge...”
“There were lots of things in this lifetime that I'd doubted, precious little I'd known for sure. But in that moment, I knew I would save her, or die trying.”
