FablesUnderMoonlight

“Being driven by a need to survive had made me into who I was: a twenty-four-year-old belligerent, brawling, unaccomplished foot soldier, who has taken the Emperor up on his offer for a better life and found there was no such thing.”
― Mavi Parolin

“But the true secret of being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. The swineherd cannot already be wed to the princess when he embarks on his adventures, nor can the boy knock at the witch’s door when she is away on vacation. The wicked uncle cannot be found out and foiled before he does something wicked. Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story.”
― Peter S. Beagle, The Last Unicorn