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“And you think it was sunrise I was waiting for and not my queen.”

“So that’s the lesson of the story?
Everyone finds different lessons in stories, I suppose: Stories can justify anything. It doesn’t matter if the boy with the heart of stone is a hero or a villain; it doesn’t matter if he got what he deserved or if he didn’t. No one can reward him or punish him, save the storyteller. U told me once, stories change. U don’t have to live inside that one story forever”

““Let me guess,the troll woman says, the meaning of the tale is that love redeems us.”
You don’t think monster girls and wicked boys deserve love? Cardan asks her
“Is this a story about people getting what they deserve?” the troll woman asks.
“Wait and see,” Cardan says”

“Do you know why the Folk can tell stories?she asks, leaning forward and causing rust to fall around her chair. Her huge body makes it look sized for a child. We who can never tell a lie.How can we do it? She speaks as though she supposes he’s never asked himself that same question, but he has. Many times, he has.Cardan tries not to let his nerves show. Because stories tell a truth, if not precisely the truth”

“Why didn’t you hate everyone?” he asks. “Everyone, all the time.”

“Cardan considers that villainy takes many forms, and he is good at all of them.”