The Sleeper and the Spindle

It’s the distance that makes a gift magical, so the dwarfs believed.

She was herself, and the name she had been born with had been eaten by time and lack of use

sheer numbers of people

Mind your head

chucked him beneath his pretty chin

ducked under the water

Incluso si vienen, morirán gritando sobre las espinas. No hay nada que puedan hacer. Que cualquiera puede hacer. Nada en absoluto."

Learning how to be strong, to feel her own emotions and not another’s, had been hard; but once you learned the trick of it, you did not forget.

routine. It’s the distance that makes a gift magical