When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“Alex laughs softly. “After poetry,” he says, leaning down to kiss me, “we move on to fairy tales.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“Children digest terror differently. The boy saw a horror, and that horror became the wicked witch of fairy tales, the cruel snow… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
“Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul.” — Ruth Frances Long Copy Share Image
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
The problem with fairy tales? They teach that as long as you're beautiful you can have whatever you want. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The history of religion is the history of appalling violence, slaughter and sexual abuses, rationalised by the fairy tales of religious delusions.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
If fairy tales doesn't exist it doesn't matter, cause I will make my own fairy tales with modern way — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Grampa Foster always says that every single experience has something to teach us about ourselves. “So don’t expect to get too comfortable… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
He had read books, newspapers and magazines. He knew that if you ran away you sometimes met bad people who did bad… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“Our imaginings (if they are ours) should be based in our own lives and experiences, all our memories. But all of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Following your dreams may seem as something out of a book of fairy tales for some, but the following of dreams is… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't… — Anna Sheehan Copy Share Image
“It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners… — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
“To be capable of great love, (that of myths, legends, and fairy tales), one must have had more so, greatly suffered, (that… — Cody Edward Lee Miller Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
“Angela Carter...refused to join in rejecting or denouncing fairy tales, but instead embraced the whole stigmatized genre, its stock characters and well-known… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“Freedom from labor itself is not new; it once belonged among the most firmly established privileges of the few. In this instance,… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“It's because you're letting the fairy tales you grew up hearing in storybooks and the baseless ideas of love cloud your mind.… — Nicole Williams Copy Share Image
“There’s danger in separating yourself from everyone, not wanting anyone to see inside of you where you’re vulnerable. We know the world… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“Beneath the dream of fame, another dream, a dream of no longer dissolving and staying dissolved in the grey, faceless and insipid… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
“Since these wonder tales have been with us for thousands of years and have undergone so many different changes in the oral… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“Truly, there is magic in fairy tales. For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time...' to allure and spellbind an… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Happily Ever Afters are only for fairy tales there is no Happily Ever Afters in the real world its called being realistic. — Serenity C Copy Share Image
None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't rush to fall in love, because even in fairy tales. The happy ending takes place on the last page. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger.” — Elizabeth Leiknes Copy Share Image
Don't rush into love. Remember that even in fairy-tales, the happy endings take place on the last page. — Rachel Copeland Copy Share Image
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“Surely she knows --like I do--that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Nothing is sadder than a child burdened by reality, after all. Those stories were our family fairy tales.” — Veronica Montes 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