“We are all searching for the fairy tale. When it doesn't come, we try to create it.” — Linda Masemore Pirrung Copy Share Image
This is not a fairy tale. This is not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“You don’t reason with a monster running at you with two sharp blades. This isn’t a fairy tale where the beasts turn… — Melody J. Bremen Copy Share Image
“Love was only a ridiculous fairy tale that was never satisfying, warm, or safe.” — Christina Lee 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
“My own life is a fairy tale story—one that has already been written by the hands of God.” — Tessa Emily Hall Copy Share Image
Dont rush to fall in love, because even in fairy tales; The happy ending takes place on the last page. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life. — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
We all love a bit of 'true love conquers all,' and when I started on 'Poison,' 'Charm' and 'Beauty,' that was one… — Sarah Pinborough 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
How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
No one can mock your meagre achievements or inability to accomplish the simplest of tasks, if they remain figments of your imagination.… — Chris Murray Copy Share Image
The escape to an unchallenging fairy tale can be very nice and I'm all for that, but film can also challenge you… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Life isn't a fairy tale, you don't always have happy endings, but you can make the best of what you do have… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Now and then they would tell old legends and fairy tales about the castle, the way people always do about old castles.… — Mechthild Gläser Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
How much more of the mosque, of prayer and fasting? Better go drunk and begging round the taverns. Khayyam, drink wine, for… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“HAZEL WASN’T PROUD OF CRYING. After the tunnel collapsed, she wept and screamed like a two-year-old throwing a tantrum. She couldn’t move… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Thank you," Becky whispered... "I wouldn't have survived that stool. It would have been 'Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.'" With rings… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
“Because men are killing the forests the fairy tales are running away. The spindle doesn't know whom to prick, the little girl's… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“Many cultural stories worldwide present the domination system as the only human alternative. Fairy tales romanticize the rule of kings and queens… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“She squinted at his nametag. Her eyes weren't quite working. "What's your name?" "Stig." "Stick?" she asked, half ready to believe it.… — Kimberly Karalius Copy Share Image
“You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks. — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
“I am not a gentle shepherd like the ones in fairy tales, but a good woodsman who shares with you earth, wind,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“In spite of life's unpredictable, callous ways, I still believe in fairy tales.” — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending. — Charlie Brooker 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
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh,… — Marc Bloch Copy Share Image
“This was how normal people survived their own fairy tales. They became their own kind of monster.” — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
“Shannon Hale, and her husband, Dean. This wasn't a standard re-telling of the fairy tale; it was a re-boot--heavy on” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When we are young, we are read fairy tales. When we are old, we are read religious tales.” — Saad Ireland Copy Share Image
“You can't change destinies already written, that only happens in fairy tales.” — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
My family is my little village. I really do feel like my fairy tale came true. — Molly Sims Copy Share Image
To be honest, Peter Pan was one of those fairy tales that I sort of related to, and I think that's the… — Robbie Kay Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and myths are forms of cultural storage for the natural history of life. — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and… — Natalie Babbitt Copy Share Image
