How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination.… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
“In the real world, 'once upon a time' and 'happily ever after' does not exist. The only thing that does exist is… — Keysi Copy Share Image
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
In life there is no fairy tales, no happily ever afters, no prince charming. In life it's reality where you are gonna… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He was in a fairy kingdom where everything was possible. He looked up at the sky. And the sky was a fairy… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
In fact, of all hoodoos in Wall Street I think the resolve to induce the stock market to act as a fairy… — Edwin Lefevre Copy Share Image
Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I said I didn't respect religion... and anyone who believes in fairy tales to answer questions that we can't answer... So I… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
“The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood: how shortsighted that is! As though we would… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Boys like romantic [fairy] tales; but babies like realistic tales - because they find them romantic...This proves that even nursery tales only… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, don’t you? He was waiting in Eternity… — Anna Seghers Copy Share Image
And this shows that people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth. And it shows that… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
For Nature is not unjust. She does not steal into the womb and like an evil fairy give her good gifts secretly… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or… — Lucy Punch Copy Share Image
“Now and then they would tell old legends and fairy tales about the castle, the way people always do about old castles.… — Mechthild Gläser Copy Share Image
I think that people who can't believe in faeries aren't worth knowing. I just think that alternate realities make you a good… — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
If you have fairy blood, even in the tiniest degree, you must live close to Fairy Land, and eat a little fairy… — Robert Moss Copy Share Image
And though you should live in a palace of gold, or sleep in a dried up ditch, You could never be as… — Rose Fyleman Copy Share Image
It's only in fairy tales that princesses can afford to wait for the handsome prince to save them. In real life, they… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
Somebody's sent a funny little valentine to me. It's a bunch of baby-roses in a vase of filigree, And hovering above them… — James Whitcomb Riley Copy Share Image
Names are still magic; even Sharon, Karen, Darren, and Warren are magic to somebody somewhere. In fairy stories, naming is knowledge. When… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I'm about to give up, but my fate pull me back as I continuE believe that fairy tales do come true and… — Michelle Ann Copy Share Image
It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 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
Custom is, nevertheless, the greatest enchantress, and in a home one of the most benevolent of fairies. A wife was young, and… — Timothy Shay Arthur Copy Share Image
“When a fairy tale ends a new one starts. Close your eyes and say ‘once upon a time’ with me; who knows… — T. Afsin Ilgar Copy Share Image
I do not know if I really am a big star. And in fact that is not the most important thing for… — Sophia Loren Copy Share Image
“Simple evolution. Most humans die of a fairy kiss; only the strong ones survive. So any halfies – they're made of some… — Kailin Gow Copy Share Image
“Great King Vasilli,” one of the fairy women said, “we know that you come from the Northern Kingdom. We’ve seen you and… — Amanda V. Shane Copy Share Image
The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
We lost the crickets," she said. "Even you can't make that sound tough." ..."I am Butler," he said with a straight-face. "Everything… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
You know when you have a party as a kid, and your mom hires a fairy, princess, or superhero to come host… — Sarah Snook Copy Share Image
Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
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