“Believe it. The world isn't all fairy tales and pixie dust. You need to grow up and face reality.” — Melody Anne Copy Share Image
“I don't want nice. I want sparks and fire. I want a romance novel. A Jane Austen movie. A fairy tale.” — Riley of Shine and Shimmer Shari L. Tapscott Copy Share Image
“As in any proper fairy tale, there's a majick formula, in this case called the Rule of Nines.” — Andrew Davidson Copy Share Image
I'm a great believer in fairy tales. I think it is important to have something you can lose yourself in. — Sophie Dahl Copy Share Image
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy… — Yakov Smirnoff Copy Share Image
“they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales?… — Alina Radoi Copy Share Image
Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
“I cannot come with you, my prince," he said with great tenderness, as he kneeled over the sleeping Neriah and placed the… — Shira Anthony Copy Share Image
“Basil Grant and I were talking one day in what is perhaps the most perfect place for talking on earth--the top of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the… — Leo Rosten Copy Share Image
“[Life] wasn't a fairy tale, and it didn't have a happy ending--but then again, no story did. In the end everybody dies...… — Aury Wallington Copy Share Image
“I'm not saying there aren't a few who marry the guy for his money. There are, but I believe there are more… — Kristin Billerbeck Copy Share Image
The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of… — Lily Cole Copy Share Image
“Think of me,' she said because it seemed like something a girl in a fairy tale might say. Think of me. Remember… — Jennifer McMahon Copy Share Image
How could you do nothing to him, if you fought so hard?” she asked. “I’m lust and he’s wrath!” he yelled. “I’m… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
“The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“What I mean is, all the terrible things that happen in fairy tales seem real. Or not real, but genuine. Life is… — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
“I gulped; I had the overwhelming sensation that what we had done wasn’t enough. I’m not sure what I had expected, maybe… — Lani Woodland Copy Share Image
“My turn now. The story of one of my insanities. For a long time I boasted that I was master of all… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Right,” she said. “Come down off that chair. I think we are ready for the next step.” “What do you mean?” “I… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
“It was a story they could tell their children, something out of a fairy tale. How their mother had not known who… — Melissa de la Cruz Copy Share Image
“My first and last philosophy ... I learnt in the nursery... The things I believed then, the things I believe most now,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“I didn’t think that fairy tale was the right term. It all seemed like a nightmare with a few blissful chapters inserted… — Keary Taylor Copy Share Image
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side. — Juan Antonio Bayona Copy Share Image
“Bedtime tales, myths, legends, fairy tales, lie the lessons and examples of what a Goddess would do.” — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
“Consider a girl who keeps slipping off, arms limp as old carrots, into the hypnotist's trance, into a spirit world speaking with… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“In fairy tales they all seem perfect, but really they are just as troubled as we are!” — Teal Vitler Copy Share Image
“This isn’t a fairy tale. This is reality. If you two end up following your hearts and not your heads, it’ll end… — Colleen Hoover Copy Share Image
The fairytale is irresponsible; it is frankly imaginary, and its purpose is to gratify wishes, as a dream doth flatter. — Susanne Katherina Langer Copy Share Image
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“How does it feel?' he asked. 'To be stuck in a fairy tale?' 'How does it feel to be one?' I countered...” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
I always wanted the fairy tale, but now I want someone who is a great partner. — Elisabeth Rohm Copy Share Image
Every fairy tale offers the potential to surpass present limits, so in a sense the fairy tale offers you freedoms that reality… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Not every fairy tale story that begins with 'Once upon a time,' has a 'Happily ever after'…” — Khalia Hades Copy Share Image
“at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.” — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
“Too many books. . . too many fairy tales led him to believe that there was something romantic in being a soldier.” — Elizabeth Nelson Copy Share Image