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“I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep.”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

“I am free. I am haunted. But if nothing else, I am wide awake.”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

“I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up.”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

“Now I have a question," Otto wrote.
"Fire away."
"What do you see in him?"
"Apart from the obvious?"
"What’s the obvious? I’m afraid I’m not a teenage girl.”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

“A fierce hand gripped my chest, squeezing my lungs. No. it wasn't my lungs. It was my heart. It was breaking.
Wasn't I stronger than this?”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

“I can't think about him, but I can't forget him, either. It's not right to forget someone you love.”
― Anna Sheehan

“Did you know I blush purple? Jamal’s teasing me about it."
"Is he reading this?" I asked, horrified.
"No."
"Sorry I made you blush."
"I’m not. Good night, Briar Rose."
"Good night, blue-skinned alien.”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

“What we have is what it is, and all I want it to be...for now”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

“Bren's eyes always drew me, until I found myself drawing them.”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

“I smiled. I was starting to like being called Briar Rose.”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

“He brushed his hand over my cheek and a thought of a wild briar-rose hedge surrounding a beautiful castle flashed into my mind. Sleeping Beauty's castle. Only he didn't see me as the cursed and passive beauty, quietly waiting to be awakened by her Prince Charming. I was the stunning rose hedge, wild and impenetrable and strong enough to withstand a hundred years of people trying to hack their way through it to the vulnerable innocents I would protect. A hedge that knew which person, which people, to let inside.”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep

“And that was really all. Will would have liked to say they lived happily ever after, if she wasn't cursed with both Wit and Honesty. But there was no such thing as happily ever after, no matter how much she loved her faerie tales. But they lived. And they were often happy. And it was always possible for each of them to banish the shadows from each other's lives. And that really is all anyone can hope for.”
― Anna Sheehan, Spinning Thorns

“He looked up at her, and his eyes were painfully deep. Something strange had happened to Will. She felt a deep warmth inside, a fondness. Not the rushing, heart-quickening distraction of perfection that Prince Ferdinand caused. Not the burning delicious ache that had hurt her every second of every day. This feeling was...unfathomable. It almost felt like amusement. The feeling glowed inside her, warm and precious. It didn't hurt at all.”
― Anna Sheehan, Spinning Thorns

“There is no wrong life. This was the life you had.”
― Anna Sheehan, No Life But This

“It was the wrong life!' he shouted at me.
'There is no wrong life,' I told him. 'This was the life you had.”
― Anna Sheehan, No Life But This

“And I know that I could. I could like you, let myself really care for you. But if I did, I just know that I'd throw more and more of myself down into that abyss, and it wouldn't begin to fill it. Rose, you just need more than I have to offer. There's so much pain there that I could never heal. And I'd want to, I'd shrivel up and wither long before anything started to get better for you. It would just be worse for both of us, in the end.”
― Anna Sheehan, A Long, Long Sleep