Arpien cleared his throat, removed his cap, and pressed his palms together in the Fifth Stance of Bereavement for Distant Relatives and Especially Good Cooks.

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.

Beauty isn't so much in front of one's eyes as it is behind them.

Little princess, lovely as the dawn, well named Aurore.

Sleeping and water are lifesavers - that's true beauty right there.

Once we have accepted the story we cannot escape the story's fate.