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
“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
“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
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“Maybe the witch thought she was protecting Rapunzel, not punishing her. Maybe she thought that if Rapunzel was locked away, no one… — Alyssa B. Sheinmel 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
“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
“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
“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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“Contemporary writers use animal-transformation themes to explore issues of gender, sexuality, race, culture, and the process of transformation...just as storytellers have done,… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“In the old stories, despite the impossibility of the incidents, the interest is always real and human. The princes and princesses fall… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
This is for girls..-stop waiting for that 'perfect' guy.he's not out there.there is no such things as fairy tales.if you push that… — Trueman Copy Share Image
“The television dramas we grew up on, stories of star-crossed lovers, stories of love overcoming all obstacles, well, they’re all fairy tales,… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
“Birthdays were wretched, delicious things when you lived in Beau Rivage. The clock stuck midnight, and presents gave way to magic. Curses… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
“She'd heard the word before; seraphim were some high order of angels, at least according to the Christian mythos, for which Brimstone… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Each word was shaped with certainty, and I felt, more strongly than ever before in my life, that I had at last… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
SO if love in fairy tales can't be real why is it in the end you seem to find the one boy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There were two things about this particular book ( The Golden Book of Fairy Tales ) that made it vital to the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Besides, she likes my stories. They are like fairy tales, I suppose, full of kings and queens and adventures. Ma says people… — Kristin Kladstrup Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there was a great queen who, having given birth to twin daughters, invited twelve fairies who lived nearby… — Marie-Catharine d'Aulnoy Copy Share Image
“The humans aren’t stupid, no matter what the purebloods say; they’re just blind, and sometimes, that’s worse. They put their fear in… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, isn't that how all fairy tales begin? Except this isn't your average fairy tale. There are no charming… — Amy Sumida Copy Share Image
When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told… — Tupac Shakur Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at… — Richard Cotovsky 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)
