The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at… — Paul Klee Copy Share Image
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy… — Yakov Smirnoff Copy Share Image
She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) This one's a beast, but way to wonderful… — DJ Drama Copy Share Image
It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread.… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
No matter what you write, you actually can't help retelling a fairy tale somewhere along the way. — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Everybody expects the fairy tale - you're going to be together forever with somebody. I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I would love to be an Avenger or Wonder Woman. Pretty much any woman who can kick ass and take names, I… — Katrina Law Copy Share Image
The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Such beautiful scarlet hair....Why don't we call you 'Erza Scarlet'? It's the color of your hair, that way, I won't forget it!"… — Hiro Mashima Copy Share Image
The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Fairy tales to me are never happy, sweet stories. They're moral stories about overcoming the dark side and the bad. — Joe Wright Copy Share Image
There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Once upon a time there was a Queen who had a son so ugly and so misshapen that it was long disputed… — Charles Perrault Copy Share Image
“–I’m not like that, he says. I’m not a … Fairy? –Every time you say that, I whisper, a little part of… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
I could hear you, talking to the daffodils and tulips, whispering to the fairies that lived inside their petals. Each separate flower… — Lucy Christopher Copy Share Image
My parents were working performers, so obviously I saw that there wasn't a lot of fairy tale going on there. It was… — Megan Follows Copy Share Image
In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Some designers are so airy-fairy people can't connect with them. I hope people can relate to me, to a normal person who… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
