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“Daphne, I don't think we're in Ferrypot Landing anymore.
~Sabrina Grimm”
― Michael Buckley, The Inside Story

“IF I HAD a dime for every time I’ve heard “We’re all going to die�� or “I’ll kill you,�� I could afford a better apartment. You can only listen to so many threats of destruction, doom, or death before you start tuning them all out. So I followed the wolf out of the building, then went home. ”
― J.C. Nelson, Free Agent

“How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (break of contract).”
― Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There'd Be Cake: Essays

“ROSA MET ME at the door with a shotgun. Strictly speaking, not aimed at me, but you don’t really have to aim a sawed-off shotgun. She swung it toward me. “You, get in there.�� She turned her attention to the crowd. “The rest of you will take a number and have a seat.�� Her paperwork skills might have been lousy, but her personal touch was something I aspired to.”
― J.C. Nelson, Free Agent

“-You find the metal, I’ll make the bell,�� said Liam. “Listen, this rampage sounds like it’s going to make a real mess out of the city. I just got my studio rebuilt from the last fire, and I’m fairly certain my insurance doesn’t cover ‘acts of archangels.�� At least, not without a large deductible. Any ideas on how to stop the ritual?"-”
― J.C. Nelson, Soul Ink

“How would I feel about hearing that the plague killed another nearby village a month later? Didn’t I tell you stupidity is the eighth sin?

Excerpt From: Cameron Jace. ��.”
― Cameron Jace, Happy Valentine's Slay, Children of Hamlin, Tooth & Nail & Fairy Tale, Ember in the Wind, Jar of Hearts, Welcome to Sorrow

“I shook my head. “I thought you had a ‘No princesses�� rule.��

“Rules are made to be broken,�� said Grimm.

Ari sat back in the chair, her eyes closed.

“Of course, young lady, there’s the matter of how we sign our contracts.��

“Not gonna happen.�� Ari threw a pen at the mirror for emphasis.”
― J.C. Nelson, Free Agent

“IN MY DEFENSE, I didn’t mean to start the Apocalypse. It wasn’t just my personal aversion to oblivion; I had a clear financial motive: The end of the world is bad for business.”
― J.C. Nelson, Armageddon Rules

“The demon of revenge had already taken hold of his heart. The cancer of injustice had already eaten at his cheerful soul, leaving a skeleton of a carcass behind, one that could never feel compassion for humans—or anything else—again.”
― Cameron Jace, Happy Valentine's Slay, Children of Hamlin, Tooth & Nail & Fairy Tale, Ember in the Wind, Jar of Hearts, Welcome to Sorrow

“Yorick's Used and Rare Books had a small storefront on Channing but a deep interior shaded by tall bookcases crammed with history, poetry, theology, antiquated anthologies. There was no open wall space to hang the framed prints for sale, so Hogarth's scenes of lust, pride, and debauchery leaned rakishly against piles of novels, folk tales, and literary theory. In the back room these piles were so tall and dusty that they took on a geological air, rising like stalagmites. Jess often felt her workplace was a secret mine or quarry where she could pry crystals from crevices and sweep precious jewels straight off the floor.
As she tended crowded shelves, she opened one volume and then another, turning pages on the history of gardens, perusing Edna St. Vincent Millay: "We were very tired, were very merry, / We had gone back and forth all night on the ferry..." dipping into Gibbon: "The decline of Rome was the natural and inevitable effect of immoderate greatness. Prosperity ripened the principle of decay..." and old translations of Grimm's Fairy Tales: "They walked the whole day over meadows, fields, and stony places. And when it rained, the little sister said, 'Heaven and our hearts are weeping together...”
― Allegra Goodman, The Cookbook Collector

“Τα παιδιά κοιτάζουν άφοβα τ' άστρα, ενώ άλλοι δεν τολμούν να κοιτάξουν προς τον ουρανό, να μην προσβάλουν τάχα τους αγγέλους.”
― Αδελφοί Γκριμ