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This is not your mom’s fairy tale.'

From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.


Ashen Venema

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(They are on the insides of the lids of my eyes.)
(This is al...
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“Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?�...
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let it go
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CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON (fairy tale).
i wanna tell you a joke
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PATRICK ROTHFUSS Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.
MOLLIE KING The fairy poet takes a sheet
Of moonbeam, silver white;
His ink is dew from daisies sweet,...
JOYCE KILMER Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to...
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To exist in the passive case i...
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HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN I haven’t been avoiding you,”

“You’re lying. The last time we were both at dinne...
KRISTEN ASHLEY He likes it. The fairy-tale topography of the town. A make-believe world of walled gardens. The quie...
DAVID SZALAY The Dreamer awakes
The shadow goes by
The tale I have told you,
That tale is a lie. TRADITIONAL FOLKTALE ENDING What can I do, Muslims? I do not know myself.
I am neither Christian nor Jew, neither Magian no...
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CAROLINE GEORGE I am a creature of the Fey
Prepare to give your soul away
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"No, dear," answered Dorothy; "it's better than...
L. FRANK BAUM Ay me! for aught that ever I could read,
could ever hear by tale or history,
the course of...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But even now I know this isn't a fairy tale. I know that we'll have hard times, confusing times. I k...
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TERESA LO You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.
TOBA BETA Free Shoes

The pairs of shoes stand in rows,
polished and jet, like coffins...
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Before we begin you may want to arrange:
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Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE My love,
you are driving the entire world mad.
The nightingales are committing suicide <...
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From the beginning of my life
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I blinked. “Wait, Jamal?”
“Suc...
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you don't start d...
AMBER KELL Laugh until you cry;
never let your eyes look dry
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this ...
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1. This is worthless nonsense.
2. This is an interesting, b...
J.B.S. HALDANE I found a sad little fairy
Beneath the shade of a paper tree.
I know a sad little fairy KHALED HOSSEINI This cruel age has deflected me,
like a river from this course.
Strayed from its familiar ...
ANNA AKHMATOVA A bitter reality of truth
can be wisely told
in a sweet tale of lullaby.
TOBA BETA This is one hell of a suicide note.

THE SUICIDE SOLILOQUY-
Yes! I've resolved the de...
SETH GRAHAME-SMITH Ay me! For aught that I could every read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course o...
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Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never...
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She has a bowl of lilacs in her room
And twists one in her fi...
T.S. ELIOT You are my father, Incarceron.
I was born from your pain.
Bone of steel; circuits for vein...
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This is your dance
Live every moment
Leave nothing to chance
Swim ...
MICHAEL W. SMITH As long as you keep one foot in the real world while the other foot's in a fairy tale, that fair...
AARON SORKIN Get out of my head,
You've overstayed your stay,
This head no longer can spare more though...
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I send you...

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No water for us, or sweet wine;
We’ll not embrace ...
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You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed!

Te...
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take air away, but
do not take from me your laughter...
PABLO NERUDA Your body is away from me,
but there is a window open
from my heart to yours.
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CHRISTOPHER WHEELDON String of love


Universe surrounds you
The Saints kneels to you
My freezin...
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In this life
Let me feel the lack
A glance from your eyes
T...
JAMES JONES Do you remember how the sun, set
On the occasion, we last conversed?

First, it hid b...
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but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers; <...
PABLO NERUDA Why this candle?
Why this cake?
The day of my birth
is not today.
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HUBERT MARTIN Your tale is of the longest," observed Monks, moving restlessly in his chair.

It is a tru...
CHARLES DICKENS Largely a bluff. A fairy tale.
VLADIMIR YEVSEYEV This is fun. I couldn't have scripted it this way. I'm just hoping for a fairy tale ending.
AARON SMALL I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
BEVERLY CLEARY Dear Fellow Human Being,

You are born wild, You do not deserve to be tamed!

Te...
JASZ GILL Listen to me. You have the fashion sense of a park bench and the interpersonal skills of a meat clea...
J.R. WARD TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -
Wanted to know what the River knew,
Twenty Bridges or ...
RUDYARD KIPLING Here’s something I bet you don’t know:
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to someone who no longer
deserves your grip
you've lost countl...
R.H. SIN My conscience hath a thousand several tongues,
And every tongue brings in a several tale,
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor...
WALTER BENJAMIN Once in a blue moon life is a fairy tale.
VICTORIA A.S.A BELLEROSE Beauty
Is the fume-track of necessity. This thought
Is therapeutic.

If, after ...
ROBERT PENN WARREN O, here
Will I set up my everlasting rest,
And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars
F...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE MOTHER IS WATER

I wish I could
Shower your head with flowers
And anoint your fe...
SUZY KASSEM Come on, it’s an American tradition. Apple soup? Mom’s homemade chicken pie?'
She chuckled...
L.J. SMITH From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I cou...
EDGAR ALLAN POE Not exactly a fairy-tale ending, was it? But it was close.
BILL MOTT The Mistake


With the mistake your life goes in reverse.
Now you can see exactl...
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