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Wandering through the silent castle - Theodora Goss "The Bear's Daughter"

In which the sun has scattered its colors - Theodora Goss "The Bear's Daughter"

Walking up glass mountains in iron shoes - Theodora Goss "The Bear's Wife"

Riding winds to the corners of the earth - Theodora Goss "The Bear's Wife"

Knowing I chose it over safety - Theodora Goss "The Bear's Wife"

The things your mother did not give you - Theodora Goss "The Clever Serving-Maid"

Queens have to know all sorts of things - Theodora Goss "The Clever Serving-Maid"

Countries you have not heard of - Theodora Goss "The Clever Serving-Maid"

Seas that have not been sailed - Theodora Goss "The Clever Serving-Maid"

At least the diamonds are valuable - Theodora Goss "Diamonds and Toads"

Although their edges leave your throat aching - Theodora Goss "Diamonds and Toads"

Circumstances in which toads are useful as diamonds - Theodora Goss "Diamonds and Toads"

Dancing in a glade alone - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"

A thing that was once wild is never tame - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"

How to avoid the hunter - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"

There is no forgiveness in the forest - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"

The birches heard him weeping - Theodora Goss "The Fox Wife"

I am a hunger waiting to be fed - Theodora Goss "Girl, Wolf, Woods"

Among which the bees were gathering nectar - Theodora Goss "Girl, Wolf, Woods"

Crabapples and blackberries to share with the birds - Theodora Goss "The Gold-Spinner"

Somewhere different than the world behind - Theodora Goss "The Gold-Spinner"

Child thieves out of a Dickens novel - Theodora Goss "Goldilocks and the Bear"

You haven't introduced yourself to the clock yet - Theodora Goss "How to Make It Snow"

The right name for a woman who makes the snow fall - Theodora Goss "How to Make It Snow"

I'm neither that vain nor ambitious - Theodora Goss "Mirror, Mirror"

All the yesterdays on which I was younger - Theodora Goss "Mirror, Mirror"

As though winter never comes and all the fairy tales were true - Theodora Goss "Mirror, Mirror"

A thief who has already stolen one's heart - Theodora Goss "Mr. Fox"

Never been good at listening to advice - Theodora Goss "Mr. Fox"

Apples waiting to be turned into cider - Theodora Goss "Mr. Fox"

Dug holes twice their depth - Theodora Goss "My Garden"

Birds in the berry bushes and briars - Theodora Goss "My Garden"

Brought back by sailors and diplomats - Theodora Goss "The Nightingale and the Rose"

In cargoes with blue porcelain and embroidered silk - Theodora Goss "The Nightingale and the Rose"

But the butterflies thought she was ugly - Theodora Goss "The Nightingale and the Rose"

Convinced the flowers belonged to them - Theodora Goss "The Nightingale and the Rose"

Who depended on the nectar for food - Theodora Goss "The Nightingale and the Rose"

Opened into white globes of fragrance - Theodora Goss "The Nightingale and the Rose"

To sing in my garden at the end of the world - Theodora Goss "The Nightingale and the Rose"

All the oddments she had collected that night - Theodora Goss "The Nightingale and the Rose"

Where everything precious is preserved - Theodora Goss "The Nightingale and the Rose"

And you can only go there by invitation - Theodora Goss "The Nightingale and the Rose"

Mother Night came walking down the street - Theodora Goss "The Nightingale and the Rose"

If I dipped her in water, she would melt - Theodora Goss "The Ogress Queen"

Why did you discard your treasure? - Theodora Goss "The Princess and the Frog"

Hurt my arms with their golden weight - Theodora Goss "The Princess and the Frog"

More than political and diplomatic lies - Theodora Goss "The Princess and the Frog"

My fate knocking on the castle gate - Theodora Goss "The Princess and the Frog"

But sometimes you get tired of dancing everywhere - Theodora Goss "The Red Shoes"

Tap-dancing in the hell writers make for themselves - Theodora Goss "The Red Shoes"

He could never give up desire - Theodora Goss "The Red Shoes"

Ragged holes held together by a spiderweb of veins - Theodora Goss "Rose Child"

Some things should be left as they are - Theodora Goss "Rose Child"

Suffer the consequences of their own folly - Theodora Goss "Rumpelstiltskin"

Steal coins from the rich, food from the poor - Theodora Goss "Rumpelstiltskin"

If you breathed on me, I would break apart - Theodora Goss "The Sensitive Woman"

Bruised by the brush of a swallow's wing - Theodora Goss "The Sensitive Woman"

That the cold light of the moon would burn her - Theodora Goss "The Sensitive Woman"

Today a raindrop could drown me - Theodora Goss "The Sensitive Woman"

Wear through seven pairs of shoes - Theodora Goss "Seven Shoes"

Leaving a path of dark water in her wake - Theodora Goss "Seven Shoes"

She'd never asked it the fatal question - Theodora Goss "Snow White Learns Witchcraft"

Knowing too well the price of coveting beauty - Theodora Goss "Snow White Learns Witchcraft"

The only role you get to write yourself - Theodora Goss "Snow White Learns Witchcraft"

And then you get to write your own story - Theodora Goss "Snow White Learns Witchcraft"

The woman who wanted us to be perfect - Theodora Goss "The Stepsister's Tale"

Of a house surrounded by thorns and briars - Theodora Goss "Thorns and Briars"

Went out into the world unafraid, because heartless - Theodora Goss "Thorns and Briars"

Thorns and briars will only part for the one predestined - Theodora Goss "Thorns and Briars"

Surrounded by books and dust - Theodora Goss "Thorns and Briars"

Let the oyster cover me with layer on layer of nacre - Theodora Goss "Thumbelina"

Emerge covered with pollen, riding a bee - Theodora Goss "Thumbelina"

Small enough to hear the dawn breaking - Theodora Goss "Thumbelina"

If you can take it without breaking anything - Theodora Goss "What Her Mother Said"

No answer is better than a foolish one - Theodora Goss "What Her Mother Said"

You must be wise in the forest - Theodora Goss "What Her Mother Said"

Do not stop to gather hawthorn flowers - Theodora Goss "What Her Mother Said"

Do not stop to listen to the reeds - Theodora Goss "What Her Mother Said"


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