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A Long, Long Sleep
Anna Sheehan
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep.”
“I am free. I am haunted. But if nothing else, I am wide awake.”
“I didn't want the sun to rise. I didn't want the world to continue turning. I wanted the whole planet put into stasis until I could catch up.”
“Now I have a question," Otto wrote. "Fire away." "What do you see in him?" "Apart from the obvious?" "What’s the obvious? I’m afraid I’m not a teenage girl.”
“A fierce hand gripped my chest, squeezing my lungs. No. it wasn't my lungs. It was my heart. It was breaking. Wasn't I stronger than this?”
“Did you know I blush purple? Jamal’s teasing me about it." "Is he reading this?" I asked, horrified. "No." "Sorry I made you blush." "I’m not. Good night, Briar Rose." "Good night, blue-skinned alien.”
“What we have is what it is, and all I want it to be...for now”
“Bren's eyes always drew me, until I found myself drawing them.”
“I smiled. I was starting to like being called Briar Rose.”
“He brushed his hand over my cheek and a thought of a wild briar-rose hedge surrounding a beautiful castle flashed into my mind. Sleeping Beauty's castle. Only he didn't see me as the cursed and passive beauty, quietly waiting to be awakened by her Prince Charming. I was the stunning rose hedge, wild and impenetrable and strong enough to withstand a hundred years of people trying to hack their way through it to the vulnerable innocents I would protect. A hedge that knew which person, which people, to let inside.”
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Book Keywords:
world, rose-fitzroy, legends, fairy-tales, truth, stasis, sleeping-beauty, true-to-life, rose, young-adult