64 Quotes About Fairytale-retelling

You do not ask her if she even wants him. That is not at all what it's about. It's not about being sensible, or strong. It's not about being kind. It's not about the soft touch and the kind heart. Beauty and a womb. That's all you are. That's all an adder needs.

Mother smiled slyly, leaning back in her chair, her fingers steepled together. "it's happening. Just like I knew it would. They couldn't avoid the prophecy forever. Their son is now at the right age.

He looks like a fortress, once strong and powerful, but now crumbling and broken. If a wind swept into the room, I am sure he would fall to pieces.

Elimae was a magician with a key in her mouth, a foreign language, a matryoshka doll: uncomplicated on the surface, but with a dozen secret selves hidden inside. She thought I didn't notice her, but she's all I did notice.

And you must tell the child the legends I told you--as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people...

He was right about something though.I am a beauty so cruel.

All at once, a beam of light tinged the raven's wings blue as summer skies. Rainbows poured from the tunnel in all directions. It was an entrance to another world

Who could have thought that anyone would love a hideous nutcracker?

You like being fucked by a killer?” he whispered in her ear. She glanced at him, meeting his eyes, unafraid now.“Only if the killer is you.