“Fairytales are full of impossible tasks.”

The bats inebriate the sky.

The mother says to her daughter: The heart is an island. To reach it, You must cross salt water. This is what the daughter fears: That joy, like sorrow, Must be reached by shipwreck, Tossed on the flotsam of tears.

Nothing is more permanent than the temporary.

You are half fairytale, half girl.

A nation that has no music and no fairytales is a tragedy.

A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds.

If you see a fairy tell her I called.

Fairytales are what you make of them.

We would look with scorn at witch mothers who build towers but not at princes who lust after caged women.

Some girls dream of princes and castles others play with matches.

Every fairytale has its own hell but there’s always heaven in the end.