The spark for 'In Praise of Slowness' came when I began reading to my children. Every parent knows that kids like their… — Carl Honore Copy Share Image
“Down the hall is Ms Englander's classroom. She teachers World Civilization. Her walls are covered with images from the Bible, Greek Mythology,… — Mariah Fredericks Copy Share Image
“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
There are recurring elements in popularized fairy tales, such as absent parents, some sort of struggle, a transformation, and a marriage. If… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
You've got to accept the fact that life isn't a fairy tale, things aren't always happily ever after. Things like magic wishes,… — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
“My aunt and my mother read to me when I was three from all the old Grimm fairy tales, Andersen fairy tales,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Jason Stone is your Logan. He’s wealthy and impressive and handsome. He’s a fairy tale. But don’t get serious. Guard your heart.”… — Abbi Glines Copy Share Image
“Tomber amoureux. To fall in love. Does it occur suddenly or gradually? If gradually, when is the moment “already”? I would fall… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit.… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
“As she looked, the smoke puffing out of the chimney stopped curling upward and began to take on the shape of a… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The modern age has carried with it a theoretical glorification of labor and has resulted in a factual transformation of the whole… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“Mr Bankes expected her to answer. And she was about to say something criticizing Mrs Ramsay, how she was alarming, too, in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Things I've Learned About Life... 1. Happy endings are for fairy tales. 2. Love is a word that gets thrown around and… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Lass.' Saga turned away to hide her smile. How like a fairy tale, that word. Rapunzel. A tall tower by a deep… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“Who are you? She asked silently, as she laid away the collector's quotations, his drawings, his scraps of famous poetry: "Come live… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
I understand why society, especially American society, is gravitating toward fairy tales, given our economy. We've been exploring the world of witches… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
Close your eyes and let your mind escape into a world of dreams, I won't wake you, Close your eyes and keep… — Alesana Copy Share Image
“I kind of grew up, not in, but sort of believing in a fairy tale world. I went from place to place… — Pam Logan Copy Share Image
“He examined the shiny symmetrical snowflakes melting on his warm paws. As a child, he had always wanted to have a collection… — D. Vernet Copy Share Image
“But apart from that single expensive item, she stayed away from the high-dollar racks. Luxury was all well and good for a… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
“by a moving reef? A gigantic horned narwhal? A mythical kraken? But I am letting myself be carried away by reveries which… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“It’s unknown to the common human being that most of the characters in fairy tales are real immortals living among us. Some… — Cameron Jace Copy Share Image
In the old fairy tales, often a 'moral' was tacked on at the end of the story - say, if a book… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“Instead of celebrating with a cake (too full of poisonous refined sugars) and presents (too materialistic), my mother would come into my… — Molly Harper Copy Share Image
“The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“All eyes flew to the entrance. A great gray stallion reared up in the doorway, its breath frosting the air with puffs… — Karen Marie Moning Copy Share Image
“In the fairy tales there's only one Big Bad Wolf and the little girl takes only one trip through the Dark Forest… — Tupelo Hassman Copy Share Image
“All stories are lessons. Fairy tales have a moral: Stay on the path. Don't trust wolves. Don't steal things, not even things… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
This is a test, isn't it? It's like choosing out of three caskets in a fairy tale. Everyone knows the rules. You… — Sophie Kinsella Copy Share Image
“Throughout history, religions and ideologies did not sanctify life itself. They always sanctified something above or beyond earthly existence, and were consequently… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Success for me is to feel happy - 80 percent of the time. That's been my goal in life. I think that… — January Jones Copy Share Image
Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“Let me guess - you're Grumpy?' He let out a humpf . ' And you would be too, if you'd just spent… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“In Pliny I read about the invention of clay modeling. A Sicyonian potter came to Corinth. There his daughter fell in love… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“I wrote fairy tales because the Fairy Tale seemed the ideal Form for the stuff I had to say. Then of course… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Life is a story. It’s full of chapters. And the beauty of life is that not only do you get to choose… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“But I'm collecting the story of his life. The real story.' Chronicler made a helpless gesture. 'Without the dark parts it's just… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Sometimes, violent details have been eliminated from fairy tales simply because they were deemed too graphic. So one does not, at the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
