“Here's a story of a girl Who grew up lost and lonely Thinking love was fairy tale And trouble was made only… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
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“While the Eternal Feminine in Faust II still appears in personalized form as the Madonna, she works her effects in The Magic… — Erich Neumann Copy Share Image
“The consolation of fairy-stories, the joy of the happy ending: or more correctly of the good catastrophe, the sudden joyous “turn” (for… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“Some seasons later, the Princess of the kingdom was riding with her handmaiden on the edge of the dark woods. Though once… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“You will not be punished for those beliefs in our nation of individual freedoms. But I do think the vast majority of… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
Typically, the hero of the fairy tale achieves a domestic, microcosmic triumph, and the hero of myth a world-historica l, macrocosmic triumph.… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
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“The fairy tale is not the conclusion, but the doorway to a more brilliant reality. Pushed onto a pedestal as the final… — Natalie Nyquist Copy Share Image
“Eleanor unpacked the picnic basket and spread Mrs. Stevenson's goodies across it. As the sun rose higher in the sky, the four… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
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Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this,… — James Finn Garner Copy Share Image
“Andersen himself believed that many of his finest stories were written after travels to Rome, Naples, Constantinople, and Athens in 1841. He… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
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I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
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I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales.… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“In the small hours of a cold February dawn, Justin and I walked to the Pacific, high cliffs eroding over the ocean,… — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
“How do you calculate fish fries in the backyard, kiddie pools in the front yard, and unfettered views of a thousand starts… — Monica Hesse Copy Share Image
“…I remember this tree!” I exclaimed. “We used to climb it all the time.” Peter seemed to have this in mind also,… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
“The fairy tale of film—created with the magic of animation—is the modern equivalent of the great parables of the Middle Ages. Creation… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
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“And she imagined how things could be later. It was stupid, but the picture just appeared in her mind. Abel and Magnus… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
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“As a man branded by society as a cruel and heartless prince himself, Kit saw so much of himself in Esme. Even… — Kristina Stangl Copy Share Image
“Girls in Victorian London were employed in all manner of menial positions- domestic servants, fruit sellers, flower girls- and Eliza's depiction of… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
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![“At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or even experiences but whole classes of experience, and to throw off irrelevancies. Bat at its best it…” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/9c5/anonymous-1_add_at-all-ages-if-fantasy-and-myth-is-used_1976082.jpg)
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