Curiosity might have killed the cat, but little girls usually fared much better.

In real life turning points are sneaky. They pass by unlabeled and unheeded. Opportunities are missed, catastrophes unwittingly celebrated. Turning points are only uncovered later, by historians who seek to bring order to a lifetime of tangled moments.

After all, it's the librarian's sworn purpose to bring books together with their one true reader.

Adults weren’t supposed to understand their children and you were doing something wrong if they did.

...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?

The certainty that she would find what it was she sought just slipped away, until one night she knew there was nothing, no one waiting for her. That no matter how far she walked, how carefully she searched, how much she wanted to find the person she was looking for, she was alone" - The Forgotten Garden

She hadn't wanted to be loved carefully, only well.