Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.
Jane YolenMots clés perspective happily-ever-after
Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.
Jane YolenMots clés fantasy fiction young-adult
Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.
Jane YolenMots clés literature childhood disease
You are a name, not a number. Never forget that name, whatever they tell you here. You will always be Chaya—life—to me.
Jane YolenMots clés names
And for adults, the world of fantasy books returns to us the great words of power which, in order to be tamed, we have excised from our adult vocabularies. These words are the pornography of innocence, words which adults no longer use with other adults, and so we laugh at them and consign them to the nursery, fear masking as cynicism. These are the words that were forged in the earth, air, fire, and water of human existence, and the words are:
Love. Hate. Good. Evil. Courage. Honor. Truth.
A child who can love the oddities of a fantasy book cannot possibly be xenophobic as an adult. What is a different color, a different culture, a different tongue for a child who has already mastered Elvish, respected Puddleglums, or fallen under the spell of dark-skinned Ged?
Jane YolenThe thing I want to know is, if you tell your brain not to do stuff... and it keeps doing it anyway, does that mean your mind has a mind of its own? And if it does, then who's in charge here, anyway?
Jane YolenLanguage helps develp life as surely as it reflects life. It is a most important part of our human condition.
Jane YolenA shadowless man is a monster, a devil, a thing of evil. A man without a shadow is soulless. A shadow without a man is a pitiable shred. Yet together, light and dark, they make a whole.
Jane YolenPassover isn't about eating, Hannah," her mother began at last, sighing and pushing her fingers through her silver-streaked hair. "You could have fooled me," Hannah muttered.
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