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“Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own real world in a fresh and truth-bearing light.”
“I will not wear a tulle-tailed dunce cap for anyone or for any reason.”
“You never know what you're gonna find when you look under those covers - grandma or the wolf.”
“He burst into the house and ate Grandma, an entirely valid course of action for a carnivore such as himself.”
“While the archetype of the tinker is generally the whipping person in classical bedtimes stories, this particular individual was a tinker by trade and just happened to be economically disadvantaged.”
“She adored fairy tales,yet derived great rewardrewriting them to the melody of her own warrior soul.Her fairytales werent made of desperate girlsbeing rescued by handsomespoiled princes.Her stories...”
“This is the only way that you can hope to survive. Because life... is not a movie. Everyone lies. Good guys lose. And love... does not conquer all.”
“A spell perhaps? The prince wrinkled his face as though it physically hurt him to think and ask questions.”
“Stories are light.”
“There weren't always happy endings and children would do well to know that vile things could happen to them, that witches and wolves were desperate to steal them should they be disobedient or fooli...”
“But I knew that, both in fairyland and the real world, too, wishes were a slipperier things.”
“Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine.”
“She started life with a number, not a name. Class: S, No. 13295. She has them memorized by rote, though nobody ever calls her that. The Scientists feel foolish addressing her in long, bewildering s...”
“A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.”
“Cinderella? Snow White? What's that? An illness?”
“She adored fairy tales,yet derived great rewardrewriting them to the melody of her own warrior soul.Her fairytales weren’t made of desperate girlsbeing rescued by handsomespoiled princes.Her storie...”
“A spell perhaps?” The prince wrinkled his face as though it physically hurt him to think and ask questions.”
