“A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.”
“Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.”
“You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.”
“Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.”
“This is what really happens when fairy tales exist. There is nothing magical or enchanting about it, my dear.”
“Whether or not she believes in fairy tales, every girl is a princess to someone”