Other Ever Afters Quotes

“We all know, for we are told so often, that girls must make journeys. Leaving their families, and entering the deep, dark, dangerous woods. Evading beasts, staying to the path, and spurning temptations. At the end of the woods is a clearing. And in that clearing, a grand castle, where she will marry and rule. These stories are told for a reason.

We all know, for we are told it so often, that girls who linger in the woods meet terrible fates. They are devoured by beast. They lose the path. They succumb to temptation. They do not marry. They do not rule. What truly goes hungry when it is denied girls to devour is the castle. May we live to see it starve.”
― Melanie Gillman, Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales