The Islamic terror threat is so fierce, unrelenting and barbaric that we tell ourselves fairy tales about how these ruthless acts are… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different… — Selena Gomez Copy Share Image
“Death was always a double-edged sword. To him, the man standing before him might have been his enemy, but to someone else,… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
The fairy tale journey may look like an outward trek across plains and mountains, through castles and forests, but the actual movement… — Anonymous 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
“We're supposed to get some time off after we stop a fairy tale from rewriting a major metropolitan area into an evil,… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“There it was again - the perverse refusal to acknowledge my hostility. She seemed to me like some magical lake in a… — Zoë Heller Copy Share Image
Me and my needs were driving my mother away. Me and my needs retreated to my closet, disappeared into fairy tales. I… — Marya Hornbacher Copy Share Image
“Besides, she likes my stories. They are like fairy tales, I suppose, full of kings and queens and adventures. Ma says people… — Kristin Kladstrup Copy Share Image
“When relationships have outlived their shelf life, people often realize that at some level, they are sticking it our because they once… — Ramani Durvasula Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
“Eight years! you must be tenacious of life. I thought half the time in such a place would have done up any… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“When he demanded gold, the Indians brought him copper, and when he demanded silver, they brought him silvery mica, which they mined… — Jack Weatherford Copy Share Image
“Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they… — George Huang 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
“Real fairy tales are not for the faint hearted. In them, children get eaten by witches and chased by wolves; women fall… — Samantha van Leer Copy Share Image
“He’s an eternal child. Sees the world like it should be in a fairy tale, minus the evil characters. Everything is bright… — C.F. White Copy Share Image
Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“All fairy tales, Tolkien argued, echo the gospel of Jesus Christ in some way because the gospel is the True Story; it’s… — Sarah Arthur Copy Share Image
“My family was relatively normal: the kind of normal where my stepfather blamed everything on the Amish, and my older sister thought… — Amber D. Tran Copy Share Image
“I've just had my very first breast-gasm. My first orgasm stemming from my breast, and it was ah-mazing. I've read about them,… — Nicole Reed Copy Share Image
“When I was a little girl, I believed in fairy tales and one of the dreams I had was someday dancing alongside… — Lisa De Jong Copy Share Image
“When fiction has become reality, life may turn into a fairy tale or a firestorm. Tina, time has come to pull up… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I am completely fascinated by the differences and comparisons between real life and fairy tales because we're raised as little girls to… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“And eventually I realized that being in love is not living a life in fairy tale.. I woke up, not with a… — Himmilicious Copy Share Image
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I wake each day and try to see what I might do that is of some value and joy. It's a strange… — Kent Haruf Copy Share Image
“Love is hard Phoenix. It’s not always easy like you see in fairy tales. You have to take the good with the… — Victoria Ashley Copy Share Image
Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“Supposed to” is a lie. A fairy tale. It is the stealer of peace and productivity. It is the leading cause of… — Paul Angone Copy Share Image
“Giving a fuck what other people thought was a road straight to misery and pain; an obsession of the weak. To believe… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“As a little girl your mind is filled with snow white, dwarfs, wizards, then you grow up and you realize you’ve got it all… — Rucy Ban Copy Share Image
Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow… — Henry David Thoreau 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
I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“Madame d'Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyland, with its manners, its… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I certainly don't think of my life as a fairy tale. I think of myself as a modern, contemporary woman who has… — Grace Kelly Copy Share Image