From a retelling of Cinderella with a rather more realistic touch...
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What clarity can an overlooked sixteen-year-old hope to have in the face of a prince’s devotions?
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and
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“That’s Geppetto and his son, Pinocchio.”
I studied them from where we stood. “They don’t look related,” I observed.
“They’re not really,” the princess laughed, “Pinocchio wasn’t a real child either till a short while ago.” She scrunched her nose at him. “He has a nasty habit of stomping on any bug he finds. Especially crickets.”
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and my favourite line, although you really have to be reading the story for it to make sense (think fairy tales and ugly ducklings), comes from here:
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The dragon smashed up the trunk with his spiked tail and the beaver escaped. Then promptly dove into a hole.
‘I only wanted to help,’ the dragon spoke to the ground. ‘On my honor as a duck.’
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-- E.L. Tenenbaum,
End of Ever After 2018
To be clear: while two of the quotes above are humorous, the book is not a comedy; it just has a few amusing moments that caught my fancy. On my honor as a duck.
