“In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper. — Lotte Reiniger Copy Share Image
Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected. — Carolyn Warner Copy Share Image
Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
Sweet little angels come from up above. Princesses come from fairy tales of love. Perfect little sweeties just like me always come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In spite of life's unpredictable, callous ways, I still believe in fairy tales.” — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“think of the prequels like snap shots of a magical land you're about to visit soon. I like to think of them… — Cameron Jace Copy Share Image
“Although reality can sometimes corrupt the fairy tale and alter our ambitions, some things remain unalterable. From the richest to the poorest,… — Michael Robotham Copy Share Image
The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs,… — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
“A common question asked of Mr. Fenn was, “How old is the boy?” to which Mr. Fenn’s reply, year after year, was,… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
“Ever since Eliza had discovered the book of fairy tales . . . had disappeared inside its faded pages, she'd understood the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“[She wished] that once, just once, the fairy tale fantasy would come true. Not the prince in shining armor . . .… — Sierra Dafoe Copy Share Image
“Let me guess. You think we’re going to live happily ever after, like some stupid fairy tale?” “Why not?” His stare dared… — Delilah S. Dawson Copy Share Image
Science tells us what we can know but what we can know is little and if we forget how much we cannot… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Creators of literary fairy tales from the 17th-century onward include writers whose works are still widely read today: Charles Perrault (17th-century France),… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“When the bald associate had mentioned a sleeping beauty, he was referring to a fairy tale that you have probably heard one… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“I'd get out of here," he said. "Go someplace where no one knew me. Start over. Go to Paris like you did… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's… — Terrence McNally Copy Share Image
Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we… — Olga Kurylenko Copy Share Image
“Yet there was a momentary hint of blue sky, and even this bit of light was enough to release a flash of… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
“I am not a gentle shepherd like the ones in fairy tales, but a good woodsman who shares with you earth, wind,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh,… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
“This was how normal people survived their own fairy tales. They became their own kind of monster.” — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
“This isn’t a fairy tale. This is reality. If you two end up following your hearts and not your heads, it’ll end… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
“In fairy tales they all seem perfect, but really they are just as troubled as we are!” — Teal Vitler Copy Share Image
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner. — Elisabeth Rohm Copy Share Image
“How does it feel?' he asked. 'To be stuck in a fairy tale?' 'How does it feel to be one?' I countered...” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
“Consider a girl who keeps slipping off, arms limp as old carrots, into the hypnotist's trance, into a spirit world speaking with… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image