“As so often happens when scientists quarrel, a lay audience is left to choose their preferred fairy tale” — Richard T Nash Copy Share Image
“There's a quality of legend about freaks. Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Once upon a time... ...there were fairy tales about princesses, knights, the magic of the true love kiss. Nowadays... I meet my… — Allegra Copy Share Image
You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human… — Jonathan Lethem Copy Share Image
“The World is divided into armed camps ready to commit genocide just because we can't agree on whose fairy tales to believe.… — Ed Krebs Copy Share Image
“He strips me to my last nakedness, that underskin of mauve, pearlized satin, like a skinned rabbit; then dresses me again in… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
My mother's childhood was complex, disjointed, and disturbing. As children, we would gather round and ask her to tell us again and… — Lisa Jewell 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
“Remember the story of Beauty and the Beast?” remarked Asil gently. “Go ahead. Take that little bloom. See what happens.” “‘Beauty and… — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
Love is like a cloud, Love is like a dream, Love is one word and everything in between. Love is a fairy… — Anonymous 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
I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson. — Claire Coffee Copy Share Image
Sorry for not being perfect but I'm not a prince charming from a fairy tale. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“No fairy tale, this. This was by no stretch of the imagination a polished fantasy. This was a searing, living force, rough… — V.S. Carnes Copy Share Image
“A lovely young girl lies on a bed in the dark listening to a fairy tale,” I said. “But she’s naked and… — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and… — Jack Zipes 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
This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
“The little queen lived in a world where the sky swirled like the sea and nothing was itself for very long. Everything… — Meia Geddes Copy Share Image
“A woman desires to be a man's last romance, her baby's first love and a person who can live with dignity all… — Purba Chakraborty Copy Share Image
“We are told in fairy tales that evil always loses and good eventually will triumph. That is what makes those stories so… — John Goode Copy Share Image
Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
“In The Frog Prince, a beautiful princess drops her golden ball into a deep spring and must allow a frog into her… — Bryan Christy Copy Share Image
“[Loki] was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering,… — A.S. Byatt 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
