“The first cut is always the deepest, but not every cut leaves a scar,”
“The dream came true,” Grandma said. “And it had nothing to do with us. After years and years of being inspired by other dreamers, that person made their own dream come true and probably inspired countless others to do the same. We wouldn’t want to want to live in a world where no one believed in themselves enough to make their own dreams come true.”
“We all do our part,” Alex teased. “But if it's any consolation, Red's problems are a lot like weeds. No matter how many times you pull them, they just keep coming back.”
“You gave goldilocks her first sword? That's like giving Shakespeare his first pen.”
“You can look at a hundred pictures and a dozen maps, but unless you’ve been to the city and felt its pulse, you really”
“People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones,”
“busts, carvings, engravings, and symbols of King Ludwig’s”
“Family Farms,” she declared. A hush fell over the room. Little Bo Peep was a very”
“Whenever Conner asked them for something he acted like a hyper Chihuahua.”
“The Masked Man – it was Dad!”
“Do I have to dress up?”
“To know someone's deepest desires is to risk knowing them more than they want to be known.”
“If you spend your whole life worrying about getting hurt, then you aren't really living. You don't want to shield yourself so much from the bad stuff that nothing good gets to you either.”
“These days people act like love is an island, they all want to swim to it but no one wants to get wet.”
“We have to take some things for granted every now and then, otherwise we would live life afraid of losing everything.”
“All it takes is one bad apple to disgrace the whole tree.”
“The taller you stand, the less weight you fell. Don't ever let anything break your spirit.”
“The first cut is always the deepest, but not every cut leaves a scar,” she said. “If you spend your whole life worrying about getting hurt, then you aren’t really living. You don’t want to shield yourself so much from the bad stuff that nothing good gets to you, either.”
“In olden times, when wishing still helped....”
- The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm”
“Time had eroded the bond between them. They were strangers who shared the same story.”
“Go away where you're loved and taken care of and looked after.”
“And in his eyes he had the look of the cat who inspires a desire to caress but loves no one, who never feels he must respond to the impulses he arouses.”
“I stood on the street, staring up at the most normal-looking house in the world. My house. I'd lived there my entire life. It was home. It was safe.
It was haunted.
The only other explanation was that I was demented. I couldn't say which I was rooting for.”
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