Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales. — Andrew Davies Copy Share Image
Fairy tales read before bed tend to make me dream. They're all quite violent stories, as are my dreams. — Glen Duncan Copy Share Image
The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it. — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
“A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music” — Georg Trakl Copy Share Image
“To Aiden & Ashley So that you will grow up loving fairy tales like I did.” — Chanda Hahn Copy Share Image
“There are no endings, and there are no fairy tales. But the pages keep being written. Time soldiers on.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are the only democratic institutions. All the classes have heard all the fairy tales.” — G K Chesterton Copy Share Image
Like a grindhouse version of Grimm's Fairy Tales, Wallwork's fiction is smart, innovative, and a hell of a lot of fun. — Carlton Mellick III Copy Share Image
Today there are no fairy tales for us to believe in, and this is possibly a reason for the universal prevalence of… — Anita Loos Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
“LISTEN, don’t believe in fairy tales! After that happy-ever-after wedding, they never tell you the rest of the story. Even if you… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
“There were lots of things in this lifetime that I'd doubted, precious little I'd known for sure. But in that moment, I… — Red Tash 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
“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
“Mrs. Potts beady black eyes narrowed,"Do you know how many glass slippers I have to stitch when I get home? There's a… — Sophie Avett Copy Share Image
“Possibilities I prefer movies. I prefer cats. I prefer the oaks along the Warta. I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky. I prefer myself… — wislawa szymborska Copy Share Image
Girls.. stop waiting for that perfect boy. He's not out there. There's no such things as fairy tales. You're life isn't an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“I will tell you, too, that every fairy tale has a moral. The moral of my story may be that love is… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“The term - 'Fairy-Tales' is so ironical in itself, when I sometimes sit to write love stories with a happy ending, it… — Mehek Bassi Copy Share Image
Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Girls in Victorian London were employed in all manner of menial positions- domestic servants, fruit sellers, flower girls- and Eliza's depiction of… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Snow White has always been one of my favorite fairy tales growing up. To be able to say, "I'm going to be… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“Clichés are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes aren’t bad; they go with the territory.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are… — Ada Calhoun Copy Share Image
“In the stories, the old fairy tales, a hero comes. But all my heroes are gone or dead. No one is coming… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If Im honest, I have to tell you I still read fairy tales and I like them best of all. — Bubbly Copy Share Image
We're all just big kids. That's all we are. We are artistes. We grew up wanting to be part of the fantasy… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are best read as entertainment,” Harry said. “Not as a guide to life.” — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do. — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally… — Michel Ocelot Copy Share Image
“In my experience, involvement in fairy tales is unavoidable no matter who you are, no matter how many fairy tales you’ve lived… — Kendra E. Ardnek Copy Share Image
“Well, can you tell her that?" He looked down at his feet. "I will. I will." Guy-speak for, "I plan to keep… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“I’m always amazed by how readily people judge the right and wrong of things they know only from the outside. Honestly, it… — David Clawson Copy Share Image
“My name is Arianna Morganna Brittany DuLac--you can imagine why I went by the name Ryan.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
I think people should read fairy tales, because were hungry for a mythology that will speak to our fears. — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
