“After all, in fairy tales, there was only one thing to do. In every story with a long sleep and a waking… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“of the race, untrammelled by the necessity of rigid adherence to the fact. The myths record the earliest attempt at an explanation… — Hamilton Wright Mabie Copy Share Image
If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly… — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
“It reminds me of the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern fairy tale." "What's that?" he asked. "In a… — Nick Wilgus Copy Share Image
You cannot make a social-consciou s picture in which you say that the intermediary between the hand and the brain is the… — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image
They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
In Grimm's fairy tales, you kiss a frog and in two seconds, it becomes a prince. That is a fairy tale. In… — D. James Kennedy Copy Share Image
“In the small hours of a cold February dawn, Justin and I walked to the Pacific, high cliffs eroding over the ocean,… — Aspen Matis Copy Share Image
“I think about all the ways I’ve been perceived by others over the years: as a burden, a dutiful daughter, a girlfriend,… — Christina Baker Kline Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever perfect. You have to make compromises and sacrifices, and it won't always be as glamorous as the fairy tales… — Nicholas Galitzine Copy Share Image
“But Tom was no believer in fairy tales and miracles. He could walk through a bluebell wood and not see a single… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“Andersen himself believed that many of his finest stories were written after travels to Rome, Naples, Constantinople, and Athens in 1841. He… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
Goldilocks [There] lived a family of bearstogether anthropomorphically in a little cottage as a nuclear family. They were very sorry about this,… — James Finn Garner Copy Share Image
“He strips me to my last nakedness, that underskin of mauve, pearlized satin, like a skinned rabbit; then dresses me again in… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“What do you mean 'speaking of fairy tales'? Since when do fairy tales include gigolos?" Annie asked. "Well, since most fairy-tale princes… — Elle Aycart Copy Share Image
From as far back as I can remember, I always loved the King Arthur stories, fairy tales, mythology - things like that.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
“Rescue - that is the true heart behind romance and fairy tale; the spontaneous love that frees us from the tower, hospital… — Mengestu Dinaw Copy Share Image
“Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a… — Rachel Higginson Copy Share Image
The minute that you bring a unicorn into a story, you know that it's a fairy tale or a fable, because unicorns… — Gloria Vanderbilt Copy Share Image
That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
The problem with fairy tales is that they set a girl up for disappointment. In real life, the Prince goes off with… — Aashi Copy Share Image
“Go away princess. Leave your outlaw alone. You won't change him... go away, Anna, far away, and don't ever come back. The… — Antonia Michaelis Copy Share Image
“But it was time to realize that I wasn't Cinderella, and no matter how hard I wished it were true, life wasn't… — Michelle Madow Copy Share Image
“It would have been so easy to believe every word he said and drive off with him into the moonlight like a… — Michelle Madow Copy Share Image
“…This place was once like your Enchanted Forest is- home to tens of thousands of fairies. But that was many ages ago,… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
“And finally, I understood that real life - with all its ups and downs, complications, broken hearts, and triumphs - was a… — Talli Roland Copy Share Image
Being replaced is like being stabbed in the leg, it hurts really bad, it probably wont kill you, but it makes life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales represent hundreds of years of stories based on thousands of years of stories told by hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
I was a youngish man entering fatherhood when we wrote 'Woods,' a patchwork of classic fairy tales with an original tale sewn… — James Lapine Copy Share Image
“I can't marry Tove!" "Why ever not?" She batted her dark lashes at me. "Because I don't love him!" "Love is a… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I don't know what my formula is. I only know I like my characters to walk in clouds. I like a little… — Leo McCarey Copy Share Image
I am not sure how much good is done by moralising about fairy tales. This can be unsubtle - telling children that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“All reality, I decide, is a blender where hopes and dreams are mixed with fear and despair. Only in cartoons and fairy… — Holly Goldberg Sloan Copy Share Image
Its all Cinderellas fault. She put all these fairy tales into little girls heads. Now look what happened. Everyones heart is broken.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Is there something wrong with daydreaming? Whether you're lost in a fairy tale or in a theory on chemistry, daydreaming about possibilities… — Kieran Kramer Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one… — Regina Brett Copy Share Image
We didn't have any books at home. Not even children's books or fairy tales. The only 'fantastic' stories came from religion class.… — Herta Muller Copy Share Image
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