“Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
“Or in other words: There are no fairy tales in the wild, no Cinderella stories. The lowly wolf that seems to rise… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know how to read. Mother was my library. I read mother One day The world will be at peace Man… — Zhu Xiao-Mei Copy Share Image
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy.… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“Vampires were hardly the monsters we were made out to be in fairy tales and television shows. We were hardly different from… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.' 'Does she say… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I think it is nice to be a little magical. Today we need this. All that we can read in fairy tales… — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my… — Susannah Grant Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it seems that half of the fairy tales of the world are some form of Cinderella, ugly duckling, or poor boy… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Some people owe everything they have to the bank accounts of their parents. I owe the state. Put simply, the state educated… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that… — Happy Rhodes Copy Share Image
“Come sit, dear," the old woman said. "We were just discussing kelpies and changelings." I turned a delightfully amused face at Ronan,… — Annie Cosby Copy Share Image
“If our life is ever really as beautiful as a fairy tale, we shall have to remember that all the beauty of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“JANE: What to do when it is that time in your girl child's life: 1. Sit down calmly and explain sex to… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, both my mom and my dad worked night shifts, so we would spend a lot of time… — Katie Hill Copy Share Image
“you can't untie this knot by listening to fairy tales you have to do something inside yourself the smallest fountain inside of… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
“It is perfectly all right for children to believe in fairy tales. Believing in dragons and other imaginary creatures may scare them… — John Taskinsoy Copy Share Image
“They must be looking everywhere for you," said Tawny, stretching out her wings to their full span - which was very far… — Suzy Davies Copy Share Image
Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“And fairy tales are make-believe. They are the stories we tell to small children to make them believe the world is a… — J.L. Vallance Copy Share Image
There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, even if you'd thought until… — Molly Ringle Copy Share Image
“We thought she'd save him. We all hoped so much that she'd save him because it would have been like a fairy… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“...little girls are raised on fairy tales. No one ever tells you that sad things stay sad, some people die angry and… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“Trousers don’t suit cats, messire,’ replied the cat with great dignity. ‘Why don’t you tell me to wear boots? Cats always wear… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“I wish for my child to have a mind as stark and wild as the winter, a spirit as clear and fine… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Vampires were fairy tales and magic. They were the wolf in the forest that ran ahead to grandmother’s house, the video game… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars… — Charlie Cox 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
“a gang of unpredictable ruffians by day who turned to enthralling storytellers after dark. "I would sometimes join them, and listen for… — Russell S. Bonds Copy Share Image
All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever… — Carolyn Porco Copy Share Image
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
“All these threads, like the ley-lines he'd read about in his Time-Life history books, converging on the Cicciaro girl, who lay there… — Garth Risk Hallberg 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
![“[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not a good idea to read fairy tales to anyone under the age of eight because they are brutal and raw. When I was a kid I often felt that kids's books were speaking down to me, but I never felt…” quote by Alice Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/09c/alice-hoffman-427_age_fairy-tales-are-like-a-journey-to-the-wo_1682556.jpg)
