Take the tale in your teeth, then, and bite till the blood runs, hoping it's not poison.
People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within.
Genre is a useful concept only when used not evaluatively but descriptively.
There's a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.
If you evade suffering, you also evade the chance of joy.
In war everybody is a prisoner.