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Jane Kindred’s THE HOUSE OF ARKHANGEL'SK dazzles with its surreal blending of worlds. Lost angel Anazakia, last survivor of her murdered family, finds herself…

— Lynn Flewelling

“Bright-kindled from heavenly flames, framed of Love's all-consuming fire, Ignited of purest passion, Burning in the Creator King's heart, A splendor of bliss to…

— Anonymous

The glory of a good tale is that it is limitless and fluid; a good tale belongs to each reader in its own particular…

— Stephen King

the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value,…

— Kate DiCamillo

Fairy-tales are nice.

— Syd Barrett

“She adored fairy tales, yet derived great reward rewriting them to the melody of her own warrior soul. Her fairytales weren’t made of desperate…

— Melody Lee

“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to…

— Jack Zipes

Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and I'm itching…

— Rick Remender

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

— Terry Tempest Williams

“If the characters are not wicked, the book is." We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float…

— G.K. Chesterton

Literature is the daughter of heaven, who descended upon earth to soften and charm all human ills.

— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre

Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with…

— Charles de Lint