The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
When you fall in love it's with a real person with flaws, not with a perfect character from a fairy tale... — Melchor Lim Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There was no slipper, nor spinning wheel, nor true love's first kiss. This was not a fairy tale with a happily ever… — Lisa Mantchev Copy Share Image
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“Surely she knows --like I do--that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Being dead is highly overrated. It’s no fun at all." -- Mythe: A Fairy Tale” — P.J. Gordon Copy Share Image
“I don’t think man was meant to attain happiness so easily. Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“And though the shadow of a sigh May tremble through the story, For "happy summer days" gone by, And vanish'd summer glory--… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns… — Lewis H. Lapham Copy Share Image
What I personally gravitate toward tends to be fantasy, medium dark - not too dark - fairy tales and sci fi. Stop-motion… — Henry Selick Copy Share Image
Burton sighed, laughed loudly, and said, "Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." Another fairy tale to give men hope .… — Philip Jose Farmer Copy Share Image
Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
“As I closed the door I caught a last glimpse of her through the round window, still sitting straight-backed and motionless with… — Tana French Copy Share Image
When you're late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love's-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“At the bottom of the box were two big fairy-tale collections our father had sent us sometime after our parents divorced in… — Mira Bartok Copy Share Image
I feel like, when we're kids, you're sold into this fairy tale of what love is. That Prince Charming's gonna come along… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
“A silver hairbrush, old and surely precious, with a little leopard's head for London stamped near the bristles. A white dress, small… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Your daughter needs you to be a rational damn human being,” replied Sloane. “Pull your head out of your ass and stop… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“The leprechaun, according to legend, can be forced to yield up its treasure if you can keep watching it without letting your… — John Michael Greer Copy Share Image
He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
“It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain of children. But nothing… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Don't rush to fall in love, because even in fairy tales. The happy ending takes place on the last page. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson. — Claire Coffee Copy Share Image
“Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.” — Greenhaven Press Copy Share Image
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“With truth like a fairy tale and the way it unwinds, We've our entire lives to 'make-up' our minds.” — Michael B. Edwards Copy Share Image
“We all need fairy tales to forget the tragedies and difficulties of life, even for a short time!” — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
“For it is a true fact that faeries, just like people, very often find that a full belly and a good friend… — C.S. Einfeld Copy Share Image
One of the pleasures of the original 'Grimm's Fairy Tales' is how incredibly ghastly they are. The ugly sisters have their eyes… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
The difference between a fairy tale and a sea tale? A fairy tale starts with "Once upon a time". A sea tale… — Edith Widder Copy Share Image
“He read? Oh my God, guys that read were like unicorns. They only existed in fairy tales.” — J. Lynn Copy Share Image
Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Indexing' is a police procedural about protecting the world from memetic incursions - which is to say, fairy tales. — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Many people say ‘Better to die’ until the time comes to do it,” Morozko returned.” — Katherine Arden Copy Share Image
And Fuck this throne, aint no kings, No pretty princess, aint no queen No fairy tale endings on the Eastside, just these… — Mgk Copy Share Image
I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
