Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated! — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Grampa says the grass is not greener on the other side. All grass changes with the seasons, it grows, it browns, and… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since. — Anonymous 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
“I wasn’t afraid of your average dark alley. I had standard Agency-issue spells in my coat and a nine millimeter in my… — J.C. Nelson Copy Share Image
“I do not despise believers. I find them neither ridiculous nor pathetic, but I lose all hope when I see that they… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
“Because, no matter how old we get, we always need to believe in fairytales.” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“IN MY DEFENSE, I didn’t mean to start the Apocalypse. It wasn’t just my personal aversion to oblivion; I had a clear… — J.C. Nelson Copy Share Image
“Love and sex are twin arts, requiring effort and knowledge. Only in fairy tales do people live happily ever after without working… — William Cutrer Copy Share Image
“The fireplace is warm nook Penina Mezei’s house in fairy tale in which the "fairy-tale-in Jukebox" can listen to while in the… — Penina Mezei 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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am concerned with a certain way of looking at life, which was created in me by the fairy tales, but has… — Anonymous 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
“It dawned on her as she grew older, that fairy tales instilled false hopes in people, and that no white knights existed… — Alexis Lawrence Copy Share Image
I don't think you ever outgrow your love for things that are bigger than life and more colorful than the average life.… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
Believing is something that you have grown up with Believing in fairy tales Believing in God Believing in the devil Believing in… — Me Copy Share Image
“It is a world of magic and mystery, of deep darkness and flickering starlight. It is a world where terrible things happen… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
Fairy tales and folk tales have always played a role in my writing in one way or another. — Linn Ullmann Copy Share Image
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after, — Lois Lowry Copy Share Image
Children are much more understanding of the suddenness and arbitrariness of death than we are. The old fairy tales contain a lot… — Emma Thompson 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
“With a glance back towards the house, he pulled the secret sketches from within. He'd been working at them on and off… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The unrealistic nature of these tales (which narrowminded rationalists object to) is an important device, because it makes obvious that the fairy… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“The history of religion is the history of appalling violence, slaughter and sexual abuses, rationalised by the fairy tales of religious delusions.” — Peter B. Lockhart Copy Share Image
“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions,… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image