““Did your parents ever tell you a sweet bedtime story that your busy little brain turned into a nightmare the instant you fell asleep? Did Cinderella ever become ten feet tall and carry an axe? Did Little Red Riding Hood actually transform into a werewolf (after she was bitten, of course). Did Scaredy Squirrel really fall out of the tree, land in poison ivy and a nest of tarantulas, and eventually get eaten by sharks, proving that he’d been right to be afraid, all along? Sure, it happened. And then you would wake up, shaking and sweating, wanting to run into their bedroom, scoot between the sheets, and spill. But you knew that if you did, they’d stop telling you stories. -D.J., Mosaic””
![“[Veda:] Twenty years of thinking that vampires and witches and all things supernatural were nothing but a bedtime story: a myth, thought up by ignorant people and told to children to keep them from straying after dark. Now, when it was right in front of her, it still felt like a fairy tale.” quote by Jessica Lave](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/18b/jessica-lave-25020_children_veda-twenty-years-of-thinking-that-vampi_117555.jpg)
![“[She wished] that once, just once, the fairy tale fantasy would come true. Not the prince in shining armor . . . But the other one . . . in which innocent little Red Riding Hood meets the Big Bad Wolf.” quote by Sierra Dafoe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b69/sierra-dafoe-278293_dark-fantasy_she-wished-that-once-just-once-the-fairy_812022.jpg)
