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Let’s start with a love story. Or maybe it’s another horror story. It seems like the difference is mostly in where the ending comes.
Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don’t trust wolves. Don’t steal things, not even things you think no normal person would care about. Share your food but don’t trust people who want to share their food with you; don’t eat their shiny red apples, nor their candy houses, nor any of it. Be nice, always nice, and polite to everyone: kings and beggars, witches and wounded bears. Don’t break a promise. Be bold, be bold, but not too bold. It’s important that we learn the lessons our mother didn’t.
“Love is a noble cause,� Vivi reminded her. “How can anything done in the service of a noble cause be wrong?�
“You’re awful.� He said it as though he was delighted. “And the worst part is that you believe otherwise.�
You’re a hungry person sitting in front of a banquet, refusing to eat.�
