“Go away princess. Leave your outlaw alone. You won't change him... go away, Anna, far away, and don't ever come back. The… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
“Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
“Rescue - that is the true heart behind romance and fairy tale; the spontaneous love that frees us from the tower, hospital… — Mengestu Dinaw Copy Share Image
From as far back as I can remember, I always loved the King Arthur stories, fairy tales, mythology - things like that.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“What do you mean 'speaking of fairy tales'? Since when do fairy tales include gigolos?" Annie asked. "Well, since most fairy-tale princes… — Elle Aycart Copy Share Image
In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
The modern fairy tale ending is the reverse of the traditional one: A woman does not wait for Prince Charming to bring… — Susan Faludi Copy Share Image
Magical, yes, but THE SNOW CHILD is also satisfyingly realistic in its depiction of 1920s homestead-era Alaska and the people who settled… — Andromeda Romano-Lax Copy Share Image
“There were two things about this particular book ( The Golden Book of Fairy Tales ) that made it vital to the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“It’s customary for the field team to take a break after a confirmed memetic incursion into baseline reality—in layman’s terms, we’re supposed… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
SO if love in fairy tales can't be real why is it in the end you seem to find the one boy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each word was shaped with certainty, and I felt, more strongly than ever before in my life, that I had at last… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“She'd heard the word before; seraphim were some high order of angels, at least according to the Christian mythos, for which Brimstone… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I looked at the 1950 animated film [Cinderella], I read a couple of editions of the fairy tale that I have in… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the… — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image
“of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
“It reminds me of the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern fairy tale." "What's that?" he asked. "In a… — Nick Wilgus Copy Share Image
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“After all, in fairy tales, there was only one thing to do. In every story with a long sleep and a waking… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
Fantasy is, I believe, the great nourisher of imagination. To paraphrase Einstein on how to develop intelligence in young people: Read fairy… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in… — Shaun Jeffrey Copy Share Image
“We said ‘pretty women in the sea,’ and that was good enough, because who doesn’t want there to be pretty women in… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
I think that true love, fairy tales, the positive messages of positive stories - I don't think those ever die. Sometimes we… — Jon M. Chu Copy Share Image
“And though I was currently living a fairy tale, some part of my soul knew that happiness couldn't last forever. I didn't… — Alysha Speer Copy Share Image
The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Every movie, I complicate. I make the hard choices. I remember when I was pitching 'Pan's Labyrinth:' An anti-fascist fairy tale set… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
There must be possible a fiction which, leaving sociology and case histories to the scientists, can arrive at the truth about the… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
In grammar school they taught me that a frog turning into a prince was a fairy tale. In the university they taught… — Ron Carlson Copy Share Image
“If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want… — Mike Myers Copy Share Image
I published my first book in 1982 - a collection of Irish folklore called Irish Folk & Fairy Tales. It is still… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
I'm very interested in talking about children in this moment where you are going to become a teenager, and I think it's… — Lucile Hadzihalilovic Copy Share Image
You cannot make a social-conscious picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the heart.… — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image
I taught a class about the Tony Awards at a summer theater camp the year after I graduated from high school. So,… — Jonathan Groff Copy Share Image