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“Will you write the story?”
“If there is one.”
“Happy ending or no?” He was serious.
She attempted a smile. “Fairy tales always have a happy ending.”
He leaned back in his chair. “That depends.”
“On what?”
“On whether you are Rumplestiltskin or the Queen.”

— Jane Yolen Briar Rose (1992)

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For what was art, she thought, but the heart and soul made visible.

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