Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.
Cameron DokeyTags: fairytale retellings sleeping-beauty
Once we have accepted the story, we cannot escape the story's fate.
P.L. TraversTags: fairytales sleeping-beauty briar-rose
A mist. A great mist. It covered the entire kingdom. And everyone in it - the good people and the not so good, the young people and the not-so-young, and even Briar Rose's mother and father fell asleep. Everyone slept: lords and ladies, teacher and tummlers, dogs and doves, rabbits and rabbitzen and all kinds of citizens. So fast asleep they were, they were not able to wake up for a hundred years.
Jane YolenTags: holocaust fairytale sleeping-beauty
A poetess who had died young of cancer had said in one of her poems that for her, on sleepless nights, 'the night offers toads and black dogs and corpses of the drowned.
Yasunari KawabataTags: sleeping sleeping-beauty
I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep.
Anna SheehanTags: fairy-tales young-adult legends sleeping-beauty
This is not the way these tales end," Calliope said firmly.
"This is not the way that things end when they get to be tales," Amatus said, "but since ours is not yet told, we cannot count on it. There were a hundred dead princes on the thorns outside Sleeping Beauty's castle, and I'm sure many of them were splendid fellows.
Tags: stories thorns tales sleeping-beauty calliope amatus dead-princes
When assaulted by sexual knowledge for the first time, a girl plunges into a period of blackness, which is required in order to let her emotions catch up with her body.
Sleeping Beauty sleeps. Cinderella waits, and while she waits she works her way through the darkness of depression. Snow White both works and sleeps before she is ready to open her eyes and find a Prince leaning over her.
Tags: sexuality girls sleep fairy-tales puberty analysis sleeping-beauty
I'll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... were not perfect in the beginning. It's only a happy ending on the last page, right? If the princess had everything from the beginning, there wouldn't be a story. Anyone who is imperfect or incomplete can become the main character in the story.
Peach-PitTags: inspirational story fairy-tales snow-white cinderella sleeping-beauty character-growth main-character
…I had seen the princess and let her lie there unawakened, because the happily ever after was so damnably much work.
Orson Scott CardTags: princess give-up sleeping-beauty too-hard lost-opportunity
Consider
a girl who keeps slipping off,
arms limp as old carrots,
into the hypnotist's trance,
into a spirit world
speaking with the gift of tongues.
Tags: fairy-tale hypnosis sleeping-beauty briar-rose
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