Fairy Quotes · Page 33

The legacy of the fairy story in my brain is that everything will work out. In fiction it would be very hard…

— Kate Atkinson

Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are…

— Richard Siken

Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

— Camille Saint-Saens

I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little…

— Leo McCarey

Fairies don’t live long, but they are so little that a short time seems a good while to them

— Anonymous

The fairies break their dances And leave the printed lawn.

— A. E. Housman

I think, a secret love is something none of your friends would understand. And it's like a fairy tale, but more serious.

— Yunho

For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first…

— Bruno Bettelheim

Faster than fairies, faster than witches, Bridges and houses, hedges and ditches; And charging along like troops in a battle, All through…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too…

— Amy Tan

I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy.

— Lana Parrilla

It's almost a sort of fairy story tale, just what a novelist would write about a discovery.

— Charles Hard Townes

At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same…

— Anonymous

We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have…

— Sam Harris

In the vast archipelago of the east, where Borneo and Java and Sumatra lie, and the Molucca Islands, and the Philippines, the…

— Frederick Marryat

“All I ever wanted was to make my parents proud. What happens when I can't be proud of them?" --Shea Evenstar”

— Maximilian Timm

I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin…

— Jo Walton

The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete…

— Jack Zipes

I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

I firmly believe in real-life fairy tales.

— Alison Sudol

None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

— Laurie Halse Anderson

Many of the enchanted things in the book are lamps, carpets, sofas, gems, brass rings. It is a rather different landscape than…

— Marina Warner

Frost grows on the window glass, forming whorl patterns of lovely translucent geometry. Breathe on the glass, and you give frost more…

— Vera Nazarian

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

— Peter S. Beagle

People who think they can just do a non-stop flight to mystical, non-dual thinking, to get it out without going through the…

— Richard Rohr