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I’m afraid to turn the page. 😬

Wow! This is getting a bit dark. 😬

“The season had dipped into autumn, and the trees in the distance started popping into their Hallowe’en clothes.” 🍁

“Red meat is bad for the complexion.”
“So is anaemia.”

Part II

“Your average princess can’t anticipate pain, even if she has pricked her finger on a spindle half a dozen times, or slept on hard peas for half a year.”

Well, that was easy! 😂🕷️

“You must do that three times a day.”
“And will I live?”
“If you die, it will be an education.”
“But if I die, I’m sure I won’t learn a thing.”
“But I would have learned a great deal.”

“In the fairy-books, all Briar Rose had ever had to do was lie down the moment things got hot, and when she woke up everything had been done for her, which is a fairly universal dream.”

Well, that escalated quickly! 🩸🔪

“For if one prince being crunched up by a dragon is inspirational, twenty-four princes being crunched up by a dragon is cautionary.”

“Home might be a pile of shit, but they’ll stay because it’s warm and the smell is familiar and they’ll cling to that. They’ll cling to it because leaving, walking into the rain to be washed clean would mean being cold and wet, walking away from what you know will mean being lost. No matter that you will make a new way, a new path – the majority of folk don’t get beyond their fear of change.”

😳

“She left here long ago; I don’t know where she went. She might be no more than dust and bones.”

“This is the story you asked to taste, whether it be sour or sweet, it is done.”

Answers and some ugly truth. Still loving this beautifully written slow burn of a book.

“Ghosts can be left behind, but they can find you too. I had hoped I’d travelled far enough.”