“It's just that in detective stories, women are usually dead before the curtain goes up. In fairy tales, they're usually alive. Fairy tales are about survival. That's all they're about. The princess lives to get married in the last act. The detective solves the woman; the knight saves her. And really, really, when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.”
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“Who knows what wild things Sleeping Beauty dreamt of while waiting to awake?”
“I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.”
“The Wild Heart wants promises of forever. The Peaceful Soul just wants harmony in the present.”
“Peace is love in its most graceful state.”
“It's not square to say a prayer.”