“The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Books were so simple about these things, fairy tales so straightforward! There were peasants, and then there were kings and queens. Sometimes… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“As the boat drew nearer to shore, and tiny dots in the distance became seagulls, she opened the book across her lap… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“So," he called to her back, "Just out of curiosity, you know, purely conversation and all, at what age will you be… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“The idea that Elizabeth and Darcy would live happily ever after is a complete fairy tale.” “A fantasy.” “Yep. A fantasy that’s… — Christina Boyd Copy Share Image
“Note that life after death, which still seems to you the essential thing, was itself a late revelation. God trained the Hebrews… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
They say that everything is derived of star dust -- We are the universe simply exploring itself. It's a peculiar thing really,… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
My grandmother, Amalia Pia Emilia Vignola, whom I called Nonna, brought out the fairy tale in everything. She used to tuck me… — Emilia Wickstead Copy Share Image
“You don't want to think about it, but there's an ethical limit to what anyone should have to endure. You can't just… — Adam Haslett Copy Share Image
“This is no kindergarten fairy tale, but an extremely powerful myth that continues to shape the lives of billions of humans and… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“I bring this up because in writing some thoughts about a father, or not having a father, I feel as though I'm… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“As I worked I continued to be a bit terrified in the back of my mind that it would be awful in… — Eve O. Schaub Copy Share Image
“I was outside St. Cecelia's Rectory smoking a cigarette when a goat appeared beside me. It was mostly black and white, with… — James Tate Copy Share Image
“Just a minute," said Lobsang. "Who are you? Time has stopped, the world is given over to...fairy tales and monsters, and there's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
You don't normally see Snow Whites that are of Latin descent. Even though Snow White is really a big deal in Spanish-speaking… — Rachel Zegler Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“I know now that all people hunger for a noble, unsullied past, that as sure as the black nationalist dreams of a… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
“All children grow up, all but one. His name is Peter and by now, all the civilized world has heard of him.… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
“Do you know when they say soul-mates? Everybody uses it in personal ads. "Soul-mate wanted". It doesn't mean too much now. But… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Once I thought fairy tales were lies or worse promises spoken yet meant to be broken intent is all. Why do grown… — Justice Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Just as we all like love tales because there is an instinct of sex, we all like astonishing tales because they touch… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
We both want the world But we both know that this gets old If I could open up my chest then maybe… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“Yet, with all his acuteness, it did not occur to him that Europe was not in the least to blame for his… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“I love the way folktale and fantasy tap into the roots of story telling. The paradox, for me, is that by moving… — Guy Gavriel Kay Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“Real fairy tales are not for the faint hearted. In them, children get eaten by witches and chased by wolves; women fall… — Samantha van Leer Copy Share Image
“[Loki] was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“When he demanded gold, the Indians brought him copper, and when he demanded silver, they brought him silvery mica, which they mined… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they… — George Huang Copy Share Image
“Eight years! you must be tenacious of life. I thought half the time in such a place would have done up any… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
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![“[Loki] was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind…” quote by A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5f9/a-s-byatt-5275_beauty_loki-was-beautiful-that-was-always-affir_1398191.jpg)
