In real life during the last decade of the twentieth century, Rumpelstiltskin would probably get the queen's daughter. He would no doubt addict her to heroin, turn her out as a prostitute, confiscate her earnings, beat her for pleasure, hack her to pieces, and escape justice by claiming that society's intolerance for bad-tempered, evil-minded trolls had driven him temporarily insane.
Dean KoontzLots of people are unable to see all kinds of truths right in front of their eyes." "The world is what we make it, and our future is ours to shape.
Dean KoontzNot all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.
Dean KoontzEach smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time --affecting lives unknown to the one whoโs generous spirit, was the source of this good echo. Because kindness is passed on and grows each time itโs passed until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage, years later, and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil.
Dean Koontz