“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
“We can't give you any further information," the fairies replied. "Be satisfied, madam, with the assurance that your daughter will be happy."… — Marie-Catharine d'Aulnoy 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
“The whole tradition of [oral] story telling is endangered by modern technology. Although telling stories is a very fundamental human attribute, to… — Sara Maitland 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
“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
“He's MINE", I howled. "Mine! And I'm his! You knew this when you slunk into our bed. I told you at the… — Amy Lane 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
“I know these are only dreams. I know these days are long past. I wake to a dream in which Hammer’s breath… — Amy Lane 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
“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
“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
“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
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
“And so the catastrophe of 1929–33 did to the certainties of laissez-faire economics what science did to nineteenth-century religion and what the… — Thomas Frank Copy Share Image
When we were kids , we get scared of Monsters even we never saw them ,but we had used our childish fertile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It was that reader that she'd found in Mama's trunk. At the schoolhouse they had McGuffey, good lessons about good boys and… — Pamela Morsi Copy Share Image
“What I corrupted was what is called the truth in favour of a more marvelous world. I could always improve on the… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“Then, just at the peak of complacency, when it was assumed that the climate of the world had changed forever, when the… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“It's funny because when you're a child, you believe you can be anything you want to be, go wherever you want to… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I love seeing the Oscar films and epic dramas. But I'd rather watch a romantic comedy than any other kind of movie.… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I look at this world and it moves me to tears. The joy and terror and the mad bloody drama of… — Brian Holguin Copy Share Image
“I live in gratitude to my parents for initiating me--and as early as I begged for it, without keeping me waiting--into knowledge… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
“Ultimately, the definition of both the wonder tale and the fairy tale, which derives from it, depends on the manner in which… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“There was no more reasonable sequitur between “provocation” and “reaction” in the case of the French Revolution than in the case of… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
“How many times have I gone back to the border of memory and peered into the darkness beyond? But it is not… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“One day I found him amid large packages from which spilled attractive, glossy paperbacks with mythical covers. He had tried to use,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?" she asked him, indulging herself and… — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
“According to folk belief that is reflected in the stories and poems, a being who is petrified man and he can revive.… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
“I believe that the great stretches of forests in northern Europe, with their constant seasonal changes, their restricted views, their astonish biological… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
“You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here’s a hint—ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn’t just the… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
And we carry onWhen our lives come undoneWe carry onCause there's promise in the morning sunWe carry onAs the dark surrenders to… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
“What would you do if you were a goddess, Cotswold?" Her maid, who had been pulling Eleanor's covers up the bed, stilled… — Megan Frampton Copy Share Image
“Alec answered her, “You do know that it’s disturbing that you know all that, right? We thought you were some go-hard; take… — Jessie Lane Copy Share Image
You know I'd fall apart without you I don't know how you do what you do 'Cause everything that don't make sense… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
Our parents fill our heads with Cinderella, Prince Charming, Big weddings, and white horses...but then we get our heart broken for the… — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
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