Briar Rose 2

"She lies alone in her dusty bedchamber atop the morbid bed. Perhaps she has never left it, her body anchored forever here by the pain of the spindle prick, while her disembodied self, from time to time, goes aimlessly astray, drifting through the castle of her childhood..."

I think this passage is interesting because after all the repetition we still are not sure if much time has passed at all. Have these past stories been dreams that come and go in a split second? This quote makes me think of when I have a dream. It seems like hours and hours go by, yet I can be asleep for only a few minutes. Her dreams within dreams are getting old. She seems to be living out her life in a long dream. I think this quote might be hinting at the fact that she may never really awaken.