literaery-me:“These were the stories grannies had been telling grandchildren, sisters had told

literaery-me:“These were the stories grannies had been telling grandchildren, sisters had told their brothers and mums and dads had been telling their kids for hundreds of years. Strange stories, funny stories, animal stories, love stories, lost-in-the-forest stories, oh-my-God-I’m-too-scared-to-sleep stories … some of the most evil and greedy and selfish ever in the history of stories live and breathe in the legs of this book. […] These stories aren’t realistic. They are far, far, far better than that. [They are] pieces of pure, totally unrealistic and absolutely brilliant magic.” - Matt Haig, in his introduction to Grimm’s Fairy Tales -- source link

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