I grew up with a lot of fairy tales. And they had an essence of darkness to them. — Rupert Sanders Copy Share Image
Generally speaking, it has been my ambition to write as a good old nurse will speak when she tells fairy tales. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
“Man, Grandma, what big hair you have." "The better to style with, my dear.” — Neal Shusterman Copy Share Image
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions. — Paul Henderson Copy Share Image
In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected. — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War. — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Saying I love you now a days is very normal but saying please Marry me is like a fairy tale..you never imagine… — Mariane Corbito Copy Share Image
I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending. — Julie Kagawa Copy Share Image
“The sleeping beauty in the fairy tale was awakened by the kiss of her prince. Finley woke up to the over-whelming and… — Kady Cross Copy Share Image
“It would be nice to report she lived happily ever after till the end of her days. But such cheap, cop-out one-liners… — Jennifer Silverwood Copy Share Image
“They sat close to each other, and he told her a story about her eyes. They were beautiful dark lakes in which… — Hans Christian Andersen 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
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
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
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
“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
“Usiwe na wasiwasi, Peter. Hizo ni hisia zangu tu. Huwezi kuwa mpelelezi. Lakini, kusema ule ukweli, ningependa sana kuonana na John Murphy.… — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
“With the sounds of Rock and Roll and Sherry’s intoxicating laugh moving you though every memory—you’re sure to be captivated by this… — Penn Press Copy Share Image
You actually do confront your dark side, your impulses, or your feelings of sibling rivalry in Cinderella or whatever. You admit that… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“If our life is ever really as beautiful as a fairy tale, we shall have to remember that all the beauty of… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Everybody sees me as a solitary entity but I long to be important to somebody It's a love of fairy tales that… — Happy Rhodes Copy Share Image
[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
“...while epic fantasy is based on the fairy tale of the just war, that’s not one you’ll find in Grimm or Disney,… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“Beyond the picket fences and the oil wells, the happy endings, and the fairy tales, is the reality of shattered lives and… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
Every girl wants to be romanced, swept off her feet, treated like a princess and live a fairy tale life! Don't settle!… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
That's what I wanted 'Pirate Jenny' to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love. — Sasha Velour Copy Share Image
No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!' all his ugliness fades fast But I… — Edmond Rostand Copy Share Image
Don't rush into love because even in fairy tales, the happy ending takes place on the last page. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering. — Layne Staley Copy Share Image
“This was not a fairy tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Jack Vance's Lyonesse books are the greatest fairy tale of the twentieth century. — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Among all the fairy tales I choose Shrek, because that's where I learned that even imperfect people can have happy endings. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
You have this fairy tale of 'life on your own.' It's so awesome. Until the apartment floods, or something happens, and your… — Maddie Marlow Copy Share Image
I never quite understood why Disney hadn't made a sincere fairy tale since 'Beauty and the Beast.' — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales weren't made of common sense and logic—they were leaps of faith.” — Heather Long Copy Share Image
“The strong belief can make things out of imagination. But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark. — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it. — Johann Georg Hamann Copy Share Image
![“[Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not a good idea to read fairy tales to anyone under the age of eight because they are brutal and raw. When I was a kid I often felt that kids's books were speaking down to me, but I never felt…” quote by Alice Hoffman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09c/alice-hoffman-427_age_fairy-tales-are-like-a-journey-to-the-wo_1682556.jpg)
