“I remember a time where Trolls were a fictitious monster from fairy tales, not arseholes on the internet looking for attention.” — Robert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“He always had bread crumbs in his voice, and I followed them like a fairy tale.” — Courtney C. Stevens Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi Copy Share Image
She looks like a fairy tale, but yet feels so natural (natural, natural, natural) This one's a beast, but way to wonderful… — DJ Drama Copy Share Image
I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really. — Jennifer Ellison Copy Share Image
[Fairy tales] make rivers run with wine only to make us remember, for one wild moment, that they run with water. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Then I shall bid thee goodnight, my dear. Sweet pixies watch over the dusty moonlight of your dreams, Jessameine.” — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
“For the first time in her life, Esme had fallen and someone was actually there to offer her a helping hand. But… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
“We see men and women who work as hard as they possibly can and still fall behind a little more every month.… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
One of the major dangers of being alone in February is the tendency to dwell on past relationships. Whether you're daydreaming about… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
“Were you relieved, maybe just a little, when they lifted you up (you weighed almost nothing by then) and shoved you into… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“He wasn't having me try on a glass slipper, but for some strange reason, I finally understood exactly why Cinderella ran off… — Sariah Wilson Copy Share Image
I feel bad for all the little girls reading fairy tales about princes who come and save them. They should learn that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
“Just a minute," said Lobsang. "Who are you? Time has stopped, the world is given over to...fairy tales and monsters, and there's… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I was outside St. Cecelia's Rectory smoking a cigarette when a goat appeared beside me. It was mostly black and white, with… — James Tate Copy Share Image
“As I worked I continued to be a bit terrified in the back of my mind that it would be awful in… — Eve O. Schaub Copy Share Image
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I never saw fairy tales as an escape or a cop-out... On the contrary, speaking for myself, it is the way to… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“How did I go from being the maiden in a fairy tale to a wretched old maids so quickly? It happened almost… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per… — Max Landis Copy Share Image
A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest… — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
“A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music” — Georg Trakl Copy Share Image
“To Aiden & Ashley So that you will grow up loving fairy tales like I did.” — Chanda Hahn Copy Share Image
The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
“A bad fairy tale has some simple goddamn moral. A great fairy tale tells the truth.” — Victor LaValle Copy Share Image
The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable. — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are the only democratic institutions. All the classes have heard all the fairy tales.” — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
I wrote a lot of scripts that were dark and fairy tale-like, but too strange. — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
“There are no endings, and there are no fairy tales. But the pages keep being written. Time soldiers on.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image