Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.
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This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.
the story is not a pretty one. there is violence in it. And cruelty. But stories that are not pretty have a certain value, too, I suppose. Everything, as you well know (having lived in this world long enough to have figured out a thing or two for yourself), cannont always be sweetness and light.
Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.
Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end...
Besides, who ever asked you what you wanted in this world, girl?The answer to that question, reader, as you well know, was absolutely no one.
No one cared what she wanted. No one had ever cared. And perhaps, worst of all, no one ever would care.