Rage swept over her at being young, young and little, as if some evil fairy had put that spell on her. Why… — Dawn Powell Copy Share Image
I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“At Bealltainn, or May Day, every effort was made to scare away the fairies, who were particularly dreaded at this season. In… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully… — Neal Asher 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
“We said ‘pretty women in the sea,’ and that was good enough, because who doesn’t want there to be pretty women in… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Make yourselves nests of pleasant thoughts. None of us knows what fairy palaces we may build of beautiful thought-proof against all adversity.… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found… — George Sand Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales. That was all she could remember about fairies, and as she tried desperately to recall the ones she'd heard or… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
“Sweet girl, maybe close the world off and look at him for an hour or two. This is your fairy. It ain’t… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
“It reminds me of the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern fairy tale." "What's that?" he asked. "In a… — Nick Wilgus Copy Share Image
The poet is no tender slip of fairy stock, who requires peculiar institutions and edicts for his defense, but the toughest son… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“In olden days stories for children always used to end with the words, and they lived happily ever after, this being after… — José Eduardo Agualusa Copy Share Image
“It was essential that someone, somewhere, even if it was only the fairy folk, should know that the human race had produced… — Kate Thompson Copy Share Image
“At last, Tink realized, she did have a mission. One born of her own passion. It would involve magic--- fiery, perhaps more… — Elizabeth Lim Copy Share Image
“It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared-for, on this dark,… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
“And I don't believe in such a thing as "happily ever after". There's only happily every now and then. I find the… — Cindy Bonner Copy Share Image
O' beautiful for spacious skies But now those skies are threatening They're beating plowshares into swords For this tired old man that… — Don Henley Copy Share Image
The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
“Motif Petrify in fairy tales, as multiple aesthetical, has complex origins and development. Forgotten Transformed ritual foundation motive is revealed in the… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But… — Craig Thompson Copy Share Image
Independently of the curious circumstance that such tales should be found existing in very different countries and languages, which augurs a greater… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
We have a long way to go to being the perfect couple, we certainly don’t live the fairy tale marriage, he doesn’t… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
When I was studying, I was part of a children's entertainment company, and I'd have to dress up as a pirate or… — Shelley Conn Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“I ALWAYS hated fairy tales. I mean, one, the name is completely demeaning as well as misleading. Precious few of them have… — John Goode Copy Share Image
Do you mean to say," asked Caspian, "that you three come from a round world (round like a ball) and you've never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I… — Nancy Werlin Copy Share Image
I feel any time you enter a dream world it's like you're working out things, it's all inside your mind and you're… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales, fantasy, legend and myth...these stories, and their topics, and the symbolism and interpretation of those topics...these things have always held… — Helen Pilinovsky Copy Share Image
“I doubt he'll come all this way for an orange," she said as she tapped her spatula against the side of the… — Aimee Carter Copy Share Image
Disney is a huge presence when it comes to fairy tales because he’s made of them such brilliant artifacts in terms of… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
What I have against religion is that they start you when you are so defenseless. I mean, I was three when they… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
![“At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c5/anonymous-1_add_at-all-ages-if-fantasy-and-myth-is-used_1976082.jpg)
![“I loved [fairy stories] so, and my mother weighed down by grief had given up telling me them. At Nohant I found Mmes. d'Ardony's and Perrault's tales in old editions which became my chief joy for five or six years ... I've never read them since, but I could tell each tale straight through, and I…” quote by George Sand](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d4a/george-sand-1753_chiefs_i-loved-fairy-stories-so-and-my-mother-w_1388127.jpg)
