Once Upon a Curse Quotes

“The torches went out, and in the darkness, he placed his lips to my ear. “I believe you because I choose to; not because I do.”
― Peter S. Beagle, Once Upon a Curse: Stories and Fairy Tales for Adult Readers

“stories are always warnings. It is to remind you that there is good and evil in the world, and that things are not always what they seem.”
― Anna Kashina, Once Upon a Curse: Stories and Fairy Tales for Adult Readers

“No, my lady, you are wrong! Death lives among the poor. Death lives in the foulest, darkest alleys of this city, in some vile, rat-ridden hovel that smells of-" He stopped here, partly because he had never been inside such a hut or thought of wondering what it smelled like. "Death lives among the poor," he went on, "and comes to visit them every day, for he is their only friend.”
― Peter S. Beagle, Once Upon a Curse

“Do you know the myth, that one should never eat the food of faery, or be forever trapped. That is true, in its way. To eat or drink of the things of faery is to taste of something so uncommon, so blessed and lovely, that one is forever spoiled. Mortals who taste us either stay with us forever, or spend their lives wishing for what they'd experienced. They search for the taste, the feeling, the joy, but find them not in human things. Some are fortunate enough to find one of us who will take them into service, but most of them pine away, unable to enjoy what they have for the longing of what they do not.”
― Cindy Lynn Speer, Once Upon a Curse