“ Whispers of amethyst meadows Where a phoenix once cried. ” — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
My family is my little village. I really do feel like my fairy tale came true. — Molly Sims Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi 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
“A fairy tale with a twisted ending, one in which the sun sets like napalm on the prince and princess as they… — Laura Kasischke 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
First, inevitably, the idea, the fantasy, the fairy tale. Then, scientific calculation. Ultimately, fulfillment crowns the dream. — Konstantin Tsiolkovsky Copy Share Image
“This is all sounding pretty fairy tale-ish,” Conor said, suspiciously. You would not say that if you heard the screams of a… — Patrick Ness Copy Share Image
“so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
Jed Perl writes precisely and ecstatically. Antoine' s Alphabet is a history and a fairy tale, a work of criticism, and a… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“...One cannot help but consider the future- what will it be like when all the wild places of the earth have been… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's… — Eric Metaxas 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
“There are no fairy tales in the wild, no Cinderella stories. The lowly wolf that seems to rise to the top of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
“Clichés are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes aren’t bad; they go with the territory.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
“She dreamt in shades of amethyst, drinking the deep purple elixir in ballads of wood nymphs, tiptoeing by elves that hid in… — Gina Marinello-Sweeney Copy Share Image