“So, too, the creeds of man: the one prevails Until the other comes; and this one fails When that one triumphs; ay,… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I always thought what if you took a myth of childhood like the tooth fairy and made it a central scary thing.… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“People who’ve never read fairy tales, the professor said, have a harder time coping in life than the people who have. They… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“The magicked dress danced over to the princess. Despite her misgivings, she stood up to receive it- it would have been rude… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit,… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the… — Richard Mercer Dorson Copy Share Image
Children understand that 'once upon a time' refers not only--not even primarily--to the past, but to the impalpable regions of the present,… — Stephen Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Enchanted castle corridors are the right place to "get in" research on fairy tales - it's a fairy tale, and fairy tales… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
It sounds cheesy but I think my life's kinda like a fairy tale. I worked really hard, but I'm very, very lucky… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
“The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending; or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous "turn" (for… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
...This is the only way. I will not allow humans or fairies to die when I might have prevented it.” Butler would… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
In The Tale of Despereaux, there is a lot of darkness, a lot of despair. There's also a lot of light, redemption,… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“She was never going to get used to how much the Faeries seem to stare at her, as if dissecting her and… — Alexia Purdy Copy Share Image
“We may say that the characters in fairytales are ‘good to think with’…[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show… — Brian Wicker Copy Share Image
I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote 'Woods,' a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
Atheists don't hate fairies, leprechauns, or unicorns because they don't exist. It is impossible to hate something that doesn't exist. Atheists, like… — Ray Comfort Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“they discovered that it doesn’t matter what you look like on the outside; it is who you are on the inside that… — S.E. Smith Copy Share Image
“And finally, I understood that real life - with all its ups and downs, complications, broken hearts, and triumphs - was a… — Talli Roland Copy Share Image
There have been household gods and household saints and household fairies. I am not sure that there have yet been any factory… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
I think that Shakespeare himself raided fairy tales and chronicle writers, and he always looked to people who worked in the mythic… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
A lot of fairy tales are thinly disguised hostility raps against parents. Kids know that they can't make it on their own,… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Christmas Eve Saint Francis and Saint Benedight Blesse this house from wicked wight; From the night-mare and the goblin, That is hight… — Thomas Cartwright Copy Share Image
She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the… — Julianna Baggott Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe… — Jackie Robinson Copy Share Image
If happy ever after did exist I would still be holding you like this all those fairy tales are fool of shit… — Precious Anne Gamboa Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, Santa, the Tooth Fairy, my stuffed animals - they were real. There is the tremendous suspension of… — David Lowery Copy Share Image
From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I think almost everybody enjoyed fairy tales when they were young, tales of witches and ogres and monsters and dragons and so… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The fast fliers are not disgraced." Queen Ree reached up for the missing tiara. "She saved us, but she's with him now."… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
One of the things that turns me on the most is imagining new worlds, just as I did as a kid, when… — Nick Willing Copy Share Image
![“Exactly what the fairy tale does is this: it accustoms [the child] to the idea that these limitless terrors had a limit, that these shapeless enemies have enemies in the knights of God, that there is something in the universe more mystical than darkness, and stronger than strong fear.” quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/f78/gilbert-k-chesterton-223_children_exactly-what-the-fairy-tale-does-is-this_2166819.jpg)
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