

“She didn't want someone to hold her while she cried and tell her it would be all right. She wanted fury, she wanted rage, she wanted a villain to tell her she'd done exactly what she needed to do.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After

“The girl was dead. If her lifeless body had not confirmed it, then it would have been made clear by the horrible scream of the Fate who held her in his arms. The story curse was familiar with pain, but this was agony, the sort of raw grief that was only seen once in a century. The Fate was every tear that anyone had ever shed for lost love. He was pain given form.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After

“Jacks no longer felt like her enemy, he felt like her home.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After

“I鈥檓 going to go back and stop your son from killing her.鈥
The queen鈥檚 face fell. For a moment, she looked as old as the years she鈥檇 spent lying in a suspended state. 鈥淭hat is not a small mistake to fix. If you do this, Time will take something equally valuable from you.鈥
The Fate gave the queen a look more vicious than any curse. 鈥淭here is nothing of equal value to me.”
― The Ballad of Never After
The queen鈥檚 face fell. For a moment, she looked as old as the years she鈥檇 spent lying in a suspended state. 鈥淭hat is not a small mistake to fix. If you do this, Time will take something equally valuable from you.鈥
The Fate gave the queen a look more vicious than any curse. 鈥淭here is nothing of equal value to me.”
― The Ballad of Never After

“It didn't matter if he stayed forever cursed. All that mattered was that he stayed, that he chose her instead of fear.”
― The Ballad of Never After
― The Ballad of Never After
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