Maybe I got sick of accusations, sick of being Polonius's daughter, and Laertes's sister, and Hamlet's girlfriend. Maybe I wanted, for a short while, simply to be myself.

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There was no slipper, nor spinning wheel, nor true love's first kiss. This was not a fairy tale with a happily ever after.

Lisa Mantchev

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I know I'm supposed to be the new Mistress of Revels! But that doesn't mean I have pockets full of muffins!

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Words are like the delicate stitches in the dress you wear, holding the fabric of the garmet together. Without them, the dress and the world are nothing but barren cloth

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And you can call me Bertie. Unexpected use of Beatrice makes me think I'm in trouble.

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a fairy in possesion of a good appetite must be in want of pie.

Lisa Mantchev

Tags: paraphrased craving

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There should be more to love," said the earth, "than 'it did not kill me.' More than 'I survived it.

Lisa Mantchev

Tags: love

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perchance to dream

"What are you doing here, Ariel? I would have thought you'd be halfway to Timbuktu."
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Lisa Mantchev

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What are you doing here, Ariel? I would have thought you'd be halfway to Timbuktu."
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Lisa Mantchev

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The collar had restrained his winds but not killed them. They uncoiled from behind the shadows, ready to surround her, to lift her up, to carry her away with only Ariel’s silk-clad arms wrapped about her to keep her from falling.

Spirare, they whispered to her like an incantation. Breathe us in.

Bertie didn’t mean to, but she inhaled, and everything inside her was a spring morning, a rose opening its petals to the sun, the light coming through the wavering glass of an old, diamond-paned window.

Tendrils of wind reached for Bertie with a coaxing hand. Release him, and he will love you.

Lisa Mantchev

Tags: wind bertie romance-novels ariel air-elemental

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