Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
“Marrying a prince was a fairy tale come true, but being part of a real, loving family…that was heaven.” — Jennifer Blackstream Copy Share Image
“Falling in love was for suckers who were in denial & hoping for a fairy tale.” — Raye Morgan Copy Share Image
“I’d like to extend a special thank you to my favorite sins: fairy tales and chick flicks.” — Stephanie Fowers Copy Share Image
I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the… — January Jones Copy Share Image
I have always thought that these two ways of talking, one is the fantastic, the fable, the fairy tale, and the other… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A.… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
I know she's shy. I know she doesn't have very many friends. I just want her to be strong, you know? To… — Enchanted Copy Share Image
“There are two types of monsters in this universe: Fairy tale monsters that will never hurt you. And human monsters living around… — Mouloud Benzadi Copy Share Image
“So he decided he would never listen to anybody he knew? That's just like someone in a fairy tale.' Knowing he had… — Pamela Dean Copy Share Image
With 'Stardust', I hope what I was doing is giving 30-year-olds and 40-year-olds and 25-year-olds and 60-year-olds a chance to get the… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are not real. However, myths are the historical notes of those who were much wiser than ourselves. We therefore have… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“He might have run off then, and thus avoided a great many adventures to come, but the girl cried, “Wait!” and he… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
“The meal was full of jovial conversation and laughter. Everyone was as happy as if Peter was right there amongst them, for… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“Prince of the Enchanted Forest. Adopted son of the Fairy Folk. Wild Boy. Your reputation precedes you, child. All of Germany has… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
“ There were once three brothers who were traveling along a lonely, winding road at twilight --’” “Midnight, our mum always told… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“From time to time you'll see documentaries about low-ranked wolves who somehow rise to the top of the pack - an omega… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Happy-ever-after is a fairy-tale notion, not history. I know of no woman who escaped from Chelmno alive.” — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
I think people should read fairy tales, because we're hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children. — Donna Shalala Copy Share Image
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“If my grandfather is responsible for her curse, then I shall be her savior.” — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
“ Aleksei with his impossible curls so very like her own, yet less seemly perhaps. Such hair is somewhat fairy-tale in a… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there's nothing more exciting. — Elliot Knight Copy Share Image
“She wasn't blindly waiting for some fairy tale; she was just smart enough to believe that she deserved it.” — Lauren Layne Copy Share Image
“A fairy tale...on the other hand, demands of the reader total surrender; so long as he is in its world, there must… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“You are every fairy tale that I dreamed of and the forever after that I never dared to hope for.” — Sydney Landon Copy Share Image
There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves. — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
“Remember that stories are more than just words, more than fairy tales. They are magic.” — Valya Dudycz Lupescu Copy Share Image
At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humor was the real salt in them. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that. — Dorothy Hamill Copy Share Image
I have an affinity for a lot of things that are kind of fairy-tale-ish and bookish. — Alison Sudol Copy Share Image
