"A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t."

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He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.

— Erin Morgenstern