“Not every fairy tale story that begins with 'Once upon a time,' has a 'Happily ever after'…” — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
“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
“Thou smellest of dog, and what news of good came ever to a cat from a fairy that had had dealings with… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated! — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side. — Juan Antonio Bayona Copy Share Image
Winter sunshine is a fairy wand touching everything with a strange magic. It is like the smile of a friend in time… — Patience Strong Copy Share Image
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Joe Biden says the Wall Street crisis is the result of George W. Bush's tax cuts, which makes as much sense as… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is… — William Allingham Copy Share Image
“And though I was currently living a fairy tale, some part of my soul knew that happiness couldn't last forever. I didn't… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
Twelve years ago I made a mock Of filthy trades and traffics; I considered what they meant by stock; I wrote delightful… — Winthrop Mackworth Praed Copy Share Image
I think that true love, fairy tales, the positive messages of positive stories - I don't think those ever die. Sometimes we… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
When I was studying, I was part of a children's entertainment company, and I'd have to dress up as a pirate or… — Shelley Conn Copy Share Image
I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Motif Petrify in fairy tales, as multiple aesthetical, has complex origins and development. Forgotten Transformed ritual foundation motive is revealed in the… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image