" Wait a minute!” I shouted, ”Magic is never one-sided!”
Stieglitz barked in agreement.
There was always a way to weasel out, everyone knew that. True, it was usually a weird way, like giving your firstborn child to a gnarled dwarf, but heroines under stress promise all kinds of things.
Alice got out of Wonderland, didn’t she?
Sleeping Beauty woke up.
I wouldn’t give up without a fight! "

― Joan Bauer , Thwonk