“Love isn't a fairy tale. It's messy. It's dirty. It's painful, and it's ugly. Until it's not…” — Jordan Marie Copy Share Image
I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“This is not your mom’s fairy tale.' From a review of my novel, 'Course of Mirrors.” — Ashen Venema Copy Share Image
“Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.” — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
I believe in the truth of fairy-tales more than I believe in the truth in the newspaper. — Lotte Reiniger Copy Share Image
Years ago, fairy tales all began with Once upon a time... now we know they all begin with, If I am elected. — Carolyn Warner Copy Share Image
Sleepy Hollow had a lot of action in it, even though it was a fairy-tale movie. — Colleen Atwood Copy Share Image
I understood that the stories we believe have power over us. They work into our bodies and minds and change us from… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
In life there is no fairy tales, no happily ever afters, no prince charming. In life it's reality where you are gonna… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are no endings for any of us, happy or otherwise, until we die. A fairy tale only ends happily because that’s… — Lilly Gayle Copy Share Image
We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
I have a bit of a love affair with fairy tales and some of the ideas of Irish mythology, like Oscar Wilde… — Hozier Copy Share Image
I used to believe in fairy tales, used to believe that the nice guy was truly the hero, then reality proved me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“If I had been born in the 1700′s, presumably children had a bigger vocabulary than I had which means I wouldn’t have… — John Branyan Copy Share Image
For those who immerse themselves in what the fairy tale has to communicate, it becomes a deep, quiet pool which at first… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions,… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“There she is, that girl, on a planet of grass. Her wants are simple: to tilt her face to the sun and… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
“So many fairy tales were about breaking taboos, and being punished for crossing lines you shouldn't have crossed. Touching a spindle you… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
“I really feel that we're not giving children enough credit for distinguishing what's right and what's wrong. I, for one, devoured fairy… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“It wasn't chance at all, Gilly. People are yearning creatures. They imagine and strive and hope. Stories about an enchanted band of… — Kristopher Reisz Copy Share Image
Sweet little angels come from up above. Princesses come from fairy tales of love. Perfect little sweeties just like me always come… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now I have someone to be there Always take a lot of care No hurt that I alone bear This is a… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Love and sex are twin arts, requiring effort and knowledge. Only in fairy tales do people live happily ever after without working… — William Cutrer Copy Share Image
We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high. — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
Since I was a little kid, I did like fairy tale. I did dress up like Little Red Riding Hood. My mom… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, a mere mortal fell in love with a rock god. You probably know this is not a fairy… — L.J. Shen Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds.” — Emily Hodson Copy Share Image
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated! — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
“You don't want to work to fall in love, you want to be in love. Like in a fairy tale.” — Catherine McKenzie Copy Share Image
“Not everyone can be a fairy-tale hero.” He pauses a moment, then adds, “The world needs villains too.” — Belle Aurora Copy Share Image
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell. — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
