Fairy tales have happy endings—real life seldom does.

Once upon a time. Ah forget it.

— Anonymous

I know my hair is out of the '60's, my clothes are '50's and the shoes I wear are from the '40's. But I…

— Dolly Parton

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

“You can't get mad at a real ending. Some of them are ugly. It's the fake happily ever afters that should piss you off.”

— Colleen Hoover

“ Happily-ever-afters don't come in happily-every-days . They are found at the end of challenges-ever-met, promises-ever-kept, and tears-ever-wept.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as…

— Theodore Dreiser

“But even if they could go home it would be difficult for me to tell you what the moral of the story is. In…

— Lemony Snicket

One of the first houses we lived in was like out of a fairy story. We had a stream that ran through our garden,…

— Emilia Clarke

“If two people see a fairy appear, eat a starfish, and dive into the tile floor without so much as a splash, neither can…

— Kaydeon K. Moore

Poems come from ordinary experiences and objects, I think. Out of memory - a dress I lent my daughter on her way back to…

— Sharon Olds

Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn…

— Walt Disney

In his anti-Darwinian book... (and eponymously named The Neck of the Giraffe ), Francis Hitching tells the story... "The need to survive by reaching…

— Stephen Jay Gould

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

— Andrew Davies

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed…

— Fay Weldon

I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me.…

— Tim Burton