These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes. — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale. — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. — Marc Chagall Copy Share Image
“It looked like he was going to die, but as you know, children don’t die in fairy tales. While” — Michèle Audin Copy Share Image
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
“...[G]enuine fairy tales are not stories about miracles, but rather announcements of the miraculous advent of justice.” — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
“What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales?” — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
I believe in elves and giants. I believe that fairy tales are nothing more than news reports of what once happened. — Sondra Locke Copy Share Image
“You think I'm right out of a horror film, don't you?" "Well this is hardly a fairy tale, is it?" "It could… — Callie Hart Copy Share Image
“The lesson here is that it’s wise to build your concept from a universal story – a myth, fairy tale, historical event,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
“I’d believed in that story, the story of us. It was still there, that antiquated fairy tale notion. I was older now,… — Ute Carbone Copy Share Image
It inspired all sorts of whims and fancies that I ultimately wove into a fairy tale complete with muse, the earth, the… — Kit Williams Copy Share Image
The regime is in trouble economically and can no longer offer anything to its citizens. That's why [Vladimir] Putin has to pursue… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids.… — Chris Colfer Copy Share Image
“I believe that the great stretches of forests in northern Europe, with their constant seasonal changes, their restricted views, their astonish biological… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
“According to folk belief that is reflected in the stories and poems, a being who is petrified man and he can revive.… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
“Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?" she asked him, indulging herself and… — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
“It doesn't feel swollen," he commented, bending his head torward her ankle again. "Does it hurt at all?" "Very little. Not nearly… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“Let him tell them the truth. Before the Gospel is a word, it is silence. It is the silence of their own… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“One day I found him amid large packages from which spilled attractive, glossy paperbacks with mythical covers. He had tried to use,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“Polyamory can feel threatening because it upsets our fairy-tale assumption that the right partner will keep us safe from change. Polyamory introduces… — Franklin Veaux Copy Share Image
My point is that when you fall in love it's with a real person with flaws. Not with a perfect character from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I dont want a cindrella or fairy tale love story, I want my own love story n my own happy ending — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day.… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
Contrary to what many may think, immortality is not a fairy tale invented to compensate for an unhappy life. — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
“Fairy Tales do not generally come true. If you mary a frog, he stays a frog.” — Ina Caro Copy Share Image
“Whether or not she believes in fairy tales, every girl is a princess to someone” — Zach Porter Copy Share Image
I like being scared, so I've always liked fairy tales because they're kind of creepy. — Lana Parrilla Copy Share Image
“Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.' - All my old loves will be returned to me” — Carolyn Turgeon Copy Share Image
As I grew up, I read and loved many fairy-tale retellings and began to think about writing my own reimagining of 'Rapunzel.' — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Sometimes life asks us to make more serious choices than whether or not to believe a fairy tale” — Chrystal Vaughan Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are more than true, not because the evil people exist, but because they can never win. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Past few days were like a fairy tale, want to have them again in my life but cann't have it. — Chhavi Malhotra Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are about lessons. Those who are virtuous and true are rewarded, while those who are wicked and greedy are punished.” — Meagan Spooner Copy Share Image
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind.… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image