The Fairy Godmother

... sometimes good people [are] helpless... terrible things happen... to good people... there [are] sad endings as well as happy ones.

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

...for a country whose people ceased to believe in magic soon lost much of their ability to imagine and dream, and before long, they ceased to believe--or hope-- for anything.

Sometimes, it seemed, the business of a Witch or a Godmother was not so much using magic as knowing when not to use it.

And when it comes down to cases, everything written is at least in part a fantasy. Except maybe for the national budget. That’s horror.