Are you a minor character in my tale, or am I a lesser figure in yours? — Jacqueline Carey Copy Share Image
Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
What they don't know is that I went over the edge years ago, and lived to tell the tale. — Rebecca Wells Copy Share Image
A truly nonviolent man would never live to tell the tale of atrocities. He would have laid down his life on the… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
UNMARKED is both gorgeous and hideous. A frightening and disturbing tale spun with great beauty. Absolutely riveting. — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much… — Irena A. Hoffman Copy Share Image
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library. — Beverly Cleary Copy Share Image
“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.” — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
A sense of humor is rare. It isn't telling a joke about how there are three ways to get to heaven. It's… — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder-tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident. — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I definitely read a lot of books on the psychology and mythology behind fairy tales because I think that's really fascinating and… — Meghan Ory Copy Share Image
Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In crime fiction, I just don't write the parts that aren't a thriller and it's exactly the same in my TV reporting… — Hank Phillippi Ryan Copy Share Image
While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial… — Pat Brown Copy Share Image
American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison … Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend… — James Branch Cabell Copy Share Image
Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As I obsess about my ancient problems, I feel more like I'm sinking in quicksand than lighting a torch. I'm creating neither… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
Then it's settled," Harriet said. "We shall work out the smaller roles later.""What about you?" Elizabeth demanded."Oh, I'm going to be the… — Julia Quinn Copy Share Image
The kitten was six weeks old. It was enchanting, a delicate fairy-tale cat, whose Siamese genes showed in the shape of the… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
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