What Book is It?? #4

I wonder if you can guess this quote: Beginning or ending paragraph from a book.
Suggest the book and author.

"Once upon a time in the middle of winter, when the flakes of snow were falling like feathers from the sky, a queen sat at a window sewing, and the frame of the window was made of black ebony. And whilst she was sewing and looking out of the window at the snow, she pricked her finger with the needle, and three drops of blood fell upon the snow."


Any Suggestions????