“Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds.” — Emily Hodson Copy Share Image
It's not about living happily ever after, but its about living happy whatever happens after. — Clevelle Copy Share Image
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love… — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over. — Diane von Furstenberg Copy Share Image
There is not a single homely thing that, looked at from a certain angle, does not become fairy. — Hope Mirrlees Copy Share Image
“Not every fairy tale story that begins with 'Once upon a time,' has a 'Happily ever after'…” — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as… — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
I was never a girl that dreamt of being a princess and I never dreamt about my wedding day. I hated pink… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I… — Jodi Picoult 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
I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers… — Erin Morgenstern 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
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
“It must be understood that in some cases the process by which a god or goddess degenerates into a fairy may occupy… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
“I will love you forever,” I murmured, and he stroked the hair off of my forehead. I will hold you to that.”… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
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
One of the major dangers of being alone in February is the tendency to dwell on past relationships. Whether you're daydreaming about… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
My phone buzzes. It’s from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I won’t be needing. —a) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I’m actually… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It's the shape of the stories that matters, the way belief forms around it. The story has real weight', He pointed at… — Karen Healey Copy Share Image
If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell. — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
“Some people only get a once upon a time. Jacob is giving me his ever after.” — Jessica Ingro Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after. — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
“I’ve got the word of an eight-year-old girl, an old fairytale I used to know, and a shred of faith... It’s not… — Emory R. Frie Copy Share Image
At a gig in Liverpool I had this lady give me 21 cup cakes she had made herself. It's not really rock'n'roll… — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,' the Disney film. It was… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“In my experience, involvement in fairy tales is unavoidable no matter who you are, no matter how many fairy tales you’ve lived… — Kendra E. Ardnek Copy Share Image
“There's no safe hideaways and no fairy tale endings. The bad guys get you and then they get away. End of story.… — Elise Alden Copy Share Image
I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long:… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Instead, their storybook marriage had a dark chapter. A villainess side character, who remained stuck in-between the pages of their beloved fairy… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
Mortals seldom know how greatly they are influenced by fairies, knooks and ryls, who often put thoughts into their heads that only… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
