“Once upon a time and long ago, in fact so long ago that I couldn't have been there, and I wasn't there,… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think we can learn everything we need to know about the world when we read fairy tales. Be careful, be… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
I love that very traditional fairy tale where it's not all 'happily ever after.' I like all that old school, bloody, 'Brothers… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
People in the real world would kill for a happily ever after, and you're willing to just throw it away ?" I… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
At a gig in Liverpool I had this lady give me 21 cup cakes she had made herself. It's not really rock'n'roll… — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
“I’ve got the word of an eight-year-old girl, an old fairytale I used to know, and a shred of faith... It’s not… — Emory R. Frie Copy Share Image
Come, let us hasten to a higher plane, Where dyads tread the fairy fields of Venn, Their indices bedecked from one to… — Stanislaw Lem Copy Share Image
In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
There is a latent fairy in all women, but look how carefully we have to secrete her in order to be taken… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
“It is perfectly all right for children to believe in fairy tales. Believing in dragons and other imaginary creatures may scare them… — John Taskinsoy Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I call her Wild Woman, for those very words, wild and woman, create llamar o tocar a la puerta, the fairy-tale knock… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Once, at the dreaming dawn of history -- before the world was categorized and regulated by mortal minds, before solid boundaries formed… — Colin Thubron Copy Share Image
“You see, King, we have a legend - I used to believe that it was all fairy-tale rubbish and empty smoke. It… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
The Tale of Despereaux is the story of an unlikely hero, a mouse, who falls in love with a princess and then… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
“It’s just the realization that there isn’t going to be a happily ever after. You put your dreams on hold, time goes… — Derek Ciccone Copy Share Image
The surprise is on the far side." "You're sure?" "Positive." "It better not be another fairy," Seth said. "What's the matter with… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
Actually, the zapping light was kinda like Sookie’s fairy-light-thing. Do you think there’s any chance I’m a fairy?” “No, Z. Focus. True… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude,… — Daphne du Maurier Copy Share Image
I was never a girl that dreamt of being a princess and I never dreamt about my wedding day. I hated pink… — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
“The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“ 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 Copy Share Image
“...little girls are raised on fairy tales. No one ever tells you that sad things stay sad, some people die angry and… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
I believed in happily ever after as much as anyone, because Jane Austen, Prince Charming, and Hugh Grant promised me it could… — Robin Wasserman 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
I think what's fun about the fairytales is just seeing what everybody interprets them as, which comes from the different directors and… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
I think it is nice to be a little magical. Today we need this. All that we can read in fairy tales… — Klaus Nomi 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
Child of the pure unclouded brow And dreaming eyes of wonder! Though time be fleet, and I and thou Are half a… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“The problem with Happily Ever After is that when you live far beyond the terms of most Ever After’s there is just… — R.G. Dole Copy Share Image
“He is not a prince, and you are not a princess, and real life is not a fairytale. Happily-ever-afters are not handed… — Jillian Eaton Copy Share Image
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy.… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot… — Jo Walton Copy Share Image
Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
