“I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.”

“I looked at Ash over the table; his silver gaze met mine, and I felt my heart swell in my chest. I was in a faery tale, wasn't I? I was playing my part in the story, the human girl who had fallen in love with a faery prince.”

“It would be dreadfullyironic, I mused, if once I earned a soul, I forgot everything about being fey, including all my memories of her. That sort of ending seemedappropriately tragic; the smitten fey creature becomes human but forgets why he wanted to in the first place. Old fairy tales loved that sort of irony.”

“One of the hazards of having a faery in love with you.”

“You’ve gone off the deep end. Time to cut back on the anime Rob. There’s no such thing as faeries.”

“Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all.”

“‎I'm a...an otaku faery.”