Briar Rose

"He is surprised to discover how easy it is. The branches part like thighs,the silky petals caress his cheeks. His drawn sword is stained, not with blood, but with dew and pollen. Yet another inflated legend. He has undertaken this great adventure, not for the supposed reward — what is another bedridden princess? — but in order to provoke a confrontation with the awful powers of enchantment itself. To tame mystery. To make, at last his name."

The quote that really got to me was the quote that we looked at on the first day of class. It gives a good feeling of what the story is about and why he is going on this journey to find rose. I didn't realize the sexual context in the quote at first, but after looking at it a second time it is really apparent. He is not on this journey just to save a princess, but to "tame mystery".