Rachel delivered it like an official pronouncement. Like she was one of the fairies gifting Sleeping Beauty's christening: Beauty. Intelligence. Heterosexual. — Josh Lanyon 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 realize that for all my penchant in believing that there's more to the world than what we can see, that folk… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“Rage Against the Dying Light is my fairy tale, even though it is based on a true story. For everyone knows that… — Jan Surasky Copy Share Image
“You don't understand at all. It doesn't matter what's true and what's a fairy tale. That's not what matters. The dividing lines… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I'm a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
In 1893, Miss M. Roalfe Cox brought together, in a volume of the Folk-Lore Society, no less than 345 variants of 'Cinderella'… — Joseph Jacobs 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
“Weeks went by, then months. I am speaking of a far-away time - a vanished happiness. It fell to me to befriend,… — Henri Alain-Fournier Copy Share Image
“Since these wonder tales have been with us for thousands of years and have undergone so many different changes in the oral… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“This is why stories like this, with great evils in them, are necessary for children to read. Kids just got here—they are… — Douglas Wilson Copy Share Image
I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the fairy tale stirs and troubles him (to his life-long enrichment) with the dim sense of something beyond his reach and, far… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is usually assumed that children are the natural or the specially appropriate audience for fairy-stories. In describing a fairy-story which they… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
When you think of Grimm's fairy tales, they are deeply, deeply psychological. They're so powerful, so bloody, and really, really disturbing. Think… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Fairy tale does not deny the existence of sorrow and failure: the possibility of these is necessary to the joy of deliverance.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
But then to part! to part when Time Has wreathed his tireless wing with flowers, And spread the richness of a clime… — Benjamin Copy Share Image
The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
I think the metaphysical world is something Lisa and I have always been interested in. We were encouraged from a very young… — Jessica Origliasso Copy Share Image
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
“What a tragic tale! Why these stories for children always have to turn out so dreadfully is beyond me. I think if… — Eowyn Ivey Copy Share Image
“Can you not see," I said, "that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child… — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Squeeze your eyes closed, as tight as you can, and think of all your favorite autumns, crisp and perfect, all bound up… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
The note, which had been written on one of the pads I kept around for grocery lists, said, "My lover, I came… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
We all recall the cruel stepmother in fairy tales. That archetype is often a necessary element in a fairy tale so that… — David Richo Copy Share Image
Confronted with the loving-sharing Consensus of subject-SUBJECT relationships all Authoritarianism must vanish. The Fairy Family Circle, co-joined in the shared vision of… — Harry Hay 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
It’s my own fault, really. For believing in fairy tales. Not that I ever mistook them for actual historical fact, or anything.… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
