Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite.… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Vampires, werewolves, fallen angels and fairies lurk in the shadows, their intentions far from honorable. — Jeaniene Frost Copy Share Image
Whoever will be free must make himself free. Freedom is no fairy gift to fall into a man's lap. What is freedom?… — Max Stirner Copy Share Image
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
I've always liked fairy tale and spectacle. I wouldn't say I was a fantasy fan, but anything beyond reality I've always found… — Gwendoline Christie Copy Share Image
Do we believe that there is equal economic opportunity out there in the real world, right now, for each and every one… — William Weld Copy Share Image
It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
The old gods and their magics did not dwindle away into murky memories of brownies and little fairies more at home in… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
The unsparing savagery of stories like the Robber Bridegroom is a sharp reminder that fairy tales belong to the childhood of culture… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
I think William Shakespeare's like a passport through your life: as a kid hearing about a play with fairies or witches or… — Gregory Doran 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
Maybe even at six or seven, I knew that, sweet as they were on the surface, all fairy tales needed a feminist… — Sarah Pinborough Copy Share Image
The Gods and Goddesses of myth, legend and fairy tale represent archetypes, real potencies and potentialities deep within the psyche, which, when… — Margot Adler Copy Share Image
There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at… — Richard Cotovsky Copy Share Image
“All three of the English types I have mentioned can, I think, be accounted for as the results of the presence of… — Lewis Spence 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
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
The great thing about fairy tales and myths is that they go beyond character. They're not about character. They're about more basic… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
