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Book: The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold
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  1. Francesca Lia Block _ The Rose and the Beast: Fairy

    So the spell was broken and she ran home through a tangle of words where the letters jumbled and made no sense and meant nothing, and the words were ugly and she was not to be heard or seen, she was blemished and too fat, too thin, not smart, too smart, not beautiful, not a woman not not not. All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break.
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  2. Francesca Lia Block _ The Rose and the Beast: Fairy

    She was free, still, like a child, the way it is before you are seen and then after that you can never remember who you are unless someone else shows it to you.
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  3. Francesca Lia Block _ The Rose and the Beast: Fairy

    Part of me wanted to swoon into nothing, but the other women's bones were talking. I didn't see the bones but I knew they were there, under the house. The little runaway bones of skinny, hungry girls who didn't think they were worth much-anything-so they stayed after the party was over and let Derrick Blue tell them his stories. He probable didn't even have to use much force on most of them.
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  4. Francesca Lia Block _ The Rose and the Beast: Fairy

    They knew, though, she would not suffer as they had suffered. She was perfect. They were scarred.
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  5. Francesca Lia Block _ The Rose and the Beast: Fairy

    The fairy who was not old, not young, who was red roses, white snowfall, who was blind and saw everything, who sent stories resounding through the universe said, You much reach inside yourself where I live like a story, not old, not young, laughing at my own sorrow, weeping pearls at weddings, wielding a torch to melt sand into something clear and bright.
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  6. Francesca Lia Block _ The Rose and the Beast: Fairy

    I thought he had taken my soul, said Rev. I thought he took mine, too. But no one can. It's just been sleeping.
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  7. Francesca Lia Block _ The Rose and the Beast: Fairy

    Tinys do not deserve safety. If they are to prove themselves, they must suffer and die or suffer and survive.
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  8. Francesca Lia Block _ The Rose and the Beast: Fairy

    All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become, if they are, they will no longer be loved by the sisters whose hearts they have not meant to break. And besides, if the sisters are gone and only the beloved remains with his dense curls and his lips, how safe are you then? You have to have him or you will die if the sisters are gone with their listening ears and their feet to rub and their bodies to dress and their shared loneliness.
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  9. Francesca Lia Block _ The Rose and the Beast: Fairy

    Yes, the Beast changed.He spoke more now, and did not gaze at Beauty in the same intense, almost pained way, as if he were feeling every emotion she felt. He did not sigh in his sleep when she sighed and his stomach didn't growl when hers hurt. He could not read her thoughts anymore, and she could not read his. He seemed a bit more clumsy and guarded and distant, too. They no longer ran through the woods together, although they still walked there sometimes. They quarreled and raised their voices to each other once in a while. Each time, after they quarreled, Beauty bathed, combed the tangles from her hair, and began to wear shoes again for a few days.
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  10. Francesca Lia Block _ The Rose and the Beast: Fairy

    Same old boring boring story America can't stop telling itself. What is this sicko fascination? Every book and movie practically has to have a little, right? But why do you think all those runaways are on the streets tearing up their veins with junk and selling themselves so they can sleep in the gutter? What do you think the alternative was at home?
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  11. Francesca Lia Block _ The Rose and the Beast: Fairy

    I pounded through the houses, staggering down the hallways, falling down the steps. It was a hot streaky dawn full of insecticides, exhaust, flowers that could make you sick or fall in love. My battered Impala was still parked there on the side of the road and I wanted to lie down on the shredded seats and sleep and sleep.But I thought of the bones; I could hear them singing. They needed me to write their song.
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  12. Francesca Lia Block _ The Rose and the Beast: Fairy

    Maybe one night I'll be asleep and I'll feel a hand like a dove on my cheekbone and feel her breath cool like peppermints and when I open my eyes my mom will be there like an angle, saying in the softest voice, When you are born it is like a long, long dream. Don't try to wake up. Just go along until it is over. Don't be afraid. You may not know it all the time but I am with you. I am with you."
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