“He might have run off then, and thus avoided a great many adventures to come, but the girl cried, “Wait!” and he… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
“The meal was full of jovial conversation and laughter. Everyone was as happy as if Peter was right there amongst them, for… — Christopher Daniel Mechling Copy Share Image
You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
I've had a fairy tale life. I had a perfect family, a beautiful childhood, an incredible upbringing. I lived a lot of… — John Stamos Copy Share Image
There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale:… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
“Never forget that for 250 years black people were born into chains—whole generations followed by more generations who knew nothing but chains.… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
True love was forever lost. The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
“Here’s the first thing you need to know: all the fairy tales are true. Oh, the specific events that the Brothers Grimm… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“One of us will just have to stay at the cottage to keep an eye on her.' [...] Let's see if Widow… — Janette Rallison Copy Share Image
“Returning to bed, Rachel strokes Zachariah's black curls as he drifts into sleep and appreciates the shape and fractal geometry there, the… — Emma Richler Copy Share Image
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“The bitch,” Bobby said sarcastically. “The nerve of the woman. Going in and bringing cake—there was cake, right?” When Tommy nodded, Bobby… — J.H. Knight Copy Share Image
“Europe enjoyed a heritage of fairy tales alive with talking animals--some almost real, other deliciously bogus-- to spark child's fantasies and gallop… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I'm at a payphone trying to call home All of my change I spent on you Where have the times gone, baby… — Maroon 5 Featuring Wiz Khalifa Copy Share Image
Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood… — Alfred Hitchcock Copy Share Image
“Speaking of novels,’ I said, ‘you remember we decided once, you, your husband and I, that Proust’s rough masterpiece was a huge,… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
“This probably isn’t something you’re supposed to say at a moment like this, but I think the moon is seriously overrated.” A… — Lauren Miller Copy Share Image
Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe… — Rob Thurman Copy Share Image
“We know from myths and fairy tales that there are many different kinds of powers in the world. One child is given… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
“It's a truth universally accepted that a single woman without romantic or professional prospects must be in want of a husband." Stella… — Rebekah Martin Copy Share Image
“At the end of that class Demian said to me thoughtfully: "There’s something I don’t like about this story, Sinclair. Why don’t… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“Black people are not the descendants of kings. We are—and I say this with big pride—the progeny of slaves. If there’s any… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
You know I'd fall apart without you I don't know how you do what you do 'Cause everything that don't make sense… — Hunter Hayes Copy Share Image
“The Stillborn God is not a fairy tale. It is a book about the fragility of our world, the world created by… — Mark Lilla Copy Share Image
“What would you do if you were a goddess, Cotswold?" Her maid, who had been pulling Eleanor's covers up the bed, stilled… — Megan Frampton Copy Share Image
“Who is that trip-trapping upon my bridge?' Miss Davies spoke in the low, growling tones of the troll in the story. Some… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“In my old easy-going theism, I had regarded Christianity as a sort of fairy tale; and I had neither accepted nor rejected… — Sheldon Vanauken Copy Share Image
“Alec answered her, “You do know that it’s disturbing that you know all that, right? We thought you were some go-hard; take… — Jessie Lane Copy Share Image
“I believe that the great stretches of forests in northern Europe, with their constant seasonal changes, their restricted views, their astonish biological… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
“According to folk belief that is reflected in the stories and poems, a being who is petrified man and he can revive.… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
“[Minho] pulled one of his knives from a pocket and, without missing a beat, cut a big piece of ivy off the… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
“You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here’s a hint—ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn’t just the… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
And we carry onWhen our lives come undoneWe carry onCause there's promise in the morning sunWe carry onAs the dark surrenders to… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
“Polyamory can feel threatening because it upsets our fairy-tale assumption that the right partner will keep us safe from change. Polyamory introduces… — Franklin Veaux Copy Share Image
“One day I found him amid large packages from which spilled attractive, glossy paperbacks with mythical covers. He had tried to use,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image