Wordless demise

A student of life who has a penchant for anything EXO, journaling and books.

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I say, make room for the new.

Jeannine Hall Gailey, from “Conversations With the Stepmother” (via the-final-sentence)

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But remember, when returning through the forest, Kept warm against the night by a cloak Of the wolf’s pelt: The hunter is also a wolf.

Theodora Goss, from “What Her Mother Said” (via the-final-sentence)

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Go on, spin out, regale The graceless fairies with a tale that’s new — You’ll be the heroine of that one, too.

Ellen Kushner, from “Sonata: For Two Friends in Different Times of the Same Trouble” (via the-final-sentence)

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Least of all Cinderella.

Cory-Ellen Nadel, from “Cinderella” (via the-final-sentence)

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Your bones she’ll toss upon the apple peels.

Joseph Stanton, from “Witch” (via the-final-sentence)

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Under her guidance, both wise and refined, the kingdom prospered, happily ever after.

Joseph Stanton, from “The Princess and the Pea” (via the-final-sentence)

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What I do not tell him is that I will again leave the path and wander into that fragrant green wood and when I see coat of silver, eyes of gold, I will follow.

Ellen Steiber, from “Silver and Gold” (via the-final-sentence)

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In the north country a child finds her dreams unchanged: Each morning she wakes and cannot understand why what mattered most is gone from her hands.

Ellen Steiber, from “Silvershod” (via the-final-sentence)

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He turned slowly away and walked off into the night.

M.C. Beaton, from The Dead Ringer (via the-final-sentence)

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‘We’re very lucky.’

Lea Wait, from Thread Herrings (via the-final-sentence)

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It’s the only thing that’s never been tried.

Marvin Harris, from Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches (via the-final-sentence)

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My tale goes only to here; it ends, and the wind carries it to you.

Carmen Maria Machado, from In the Dream House (via the-final-sentence)

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And then you open up those castle doors and walk alone into your beautifully crafted sunset.

Nikita Gill, from “Devour Your Monsters” (via the-final-sentence)

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They raise them to wither in front of every man that gives them even an inkling of the love they never received from their father.

Nikita Gill, from “In Absentia: A Common Curse” (via the-final-sentence)

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“I awoke in a cold room, hunched on the floor beside a black and empty grate, the clock striking three, and the siren howling overhead.”

C.S Lewis, from The Great Divorce  (via the-final-sentence)

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We left the field of metallic corpses behind and walked across the valley beneath the vast and terrible beauty of the dawn.

Meagan Spooner, from Skylark (via the-final-sentence)

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Although from birth I have been told that in not being so I have failed my purpose as a whole.

Nikita Gill, from “Princess Plain” (via the-final-sentence)