“Shark snorts. “Hope? What’s that? I heard about it once, in a fairy tale.”
“I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.”
“Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!”
“When we think about fairy tales, we think about happily ever afters, forgetting the darkness that stories beginning with "once upon a time" so often contain.I tried to protect Shay from that darkness. But there was no way to shield her from the truth: Life is not a fairy tale.”
“The fairy tale belongs to the poor...I know of no fairy tale which upholds the tyrant, or takes the part of the strong against the weak. A fascist fairy tale is an absurdity.”
“Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.”