Our Story Begins Quotes

“Once upon a time there was a little boy and a little girl who lived in the woods with their mother. One day the little boy said, “Mother, I want an apple.” The mother said, “Okay.” The boy reached into the box and the mother closed the lid on him and cut off his head and set him out in the yard and tied a rag around his neck to keep his head on. The little girl came home. She cried a lot. She sneaked out and pasted his head back on with magic paste. Then she put her brother in her boyfriend’s house. She grew up and married her boyfriend. The mother died. The end.”
― Elissa Brent Weissman, Our Story Begins: Your Favorite Authors and Illustrators Share Fun, Inspiring, and Occasionally Ridiculous Things They Wrote and Drew as Kids