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Briar Rose QUOTES

Briar Rose QUOTES

1 " Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. "

― Jane Yolen , Briar Rose

2 " Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars. "

― Jane Yolen , Briar Rose

3 " Stories," he'd said, his voice low and almost husky, "we are made up of stories. And even the ones that seem the most like lies can be our deepest hidden truths. "

― Jane Yolen , Briar Rose

4 " A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young people and the not-so-young, and even Briar Rose's mother and father fell asleep. Everyone slept: lords and ladies, teacher and tummlers, dogs and doves, rabbits and rabbitzen and all kinds of citizens. So fast asleep they were, they were not able to wake up for a hundred years. "

― Jane Yolen , Briar Rose

5 " Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive. "

― Jane Yolen , Briar Rose

6 " A mist still lay all about the walls and floors, hovering like a last breath on the lips of all the sleepers. As he walked through the castle, he marveled at how many lay asleep: the good people, the not-so-good, the young people and the not-so-young, and not one of them stirring. Not one. "

― Jane Yolen , Briar Rose

7 " All around the castle, a briary hedge began to grow, with thorns as sharp as barbs. "

― Jane Yolen , Briar Rose

8 " Once upon a time," Gemma began, the older two girls whispering the opening with her, "which is all times and no times but not the very best of times,there was a castle. And in it lived a king who wanted nothing more in the world than a child. "

― Jane Yolen , Briar Rose

9 " Once we have accepted the story, we cannot escape the story's fate. "

― Jane Yolen , Briar Rose