“In olden times, when wishing still helped…” - The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm” — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
Yule—Yul log for the Christmas-fire tale-spinner—of fairy tales that can come true: Yul Brynner. — Marianne Moore Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are more then true.Not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be… — GK Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Whatever ‘I AM,’ you are! You are, I AM, not me you see, but you are ‘I AM’ is what will be!”… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
“I don't believe in fairy tales," she breathed. "I'd like to make you believe." He leaned over and kissed her forehead.” — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make… — Alethea Kontis Copy Share Image
“Vane’s lips tightened to suppress a smile. “Why so hostile, love?” “You whacked me on the head with a ball!” “You deserved… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“Real love is messy, and broken, and hard. Not all fairy tales and Prince Charming.” — Melody Grace Copy Share Image
There's no such thing as fairy tales. it does not exist in reality. . . but there is always a happy ending.… — Caryll Amoyan Copy Share Image
Violence has been a part of storytelling forever and there's obviously a reason for it. Fairy tales are really violent, the original… — Jane Levy Copy Share Image
Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got… — Neil Jordan Copy Share Image
“She talks like you. It’s not every day you hear a four-year-old say Prince Charming is a douchebag who’s only holding Cinderella… — Emma Chase 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
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
“On Three Ways of Writing for Children”: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
I've always loved fairy tales. I think they perhaps led me to theater rather than the other way around. As a child… — Mary Zimmerman Copy Share Image
“Hammer does not think he will make it through this next winter. His breath comes short in his chest, and it takes… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be… — Kate Bernheimer 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
“Now "The Arabian Nights," some of which, but not nearly all, are given in this volume, are only fairy tales of the… — Muhsin Mahdi Copy Share Image
“Can you not see," I said, "that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
GIRLS, Stop Waiting For That ''Perfect Boy''. He's Not Out There. Theres No Such Thing As Fairy Tales. Your Life Isn't an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Beneath the notebook she found the book of fairy tales. The cover was green cardboard, the writing gold: 'Magical Tales for Girls… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Evil is also not anything small or close to home, and not the worst; otherwise one could grow accustomed to it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't rush to fall in love, because even in fairy tales. The happy ending takes place on the last page. — Anurag Prakash Ray 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… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger.” — Elizabeth Leiknes Copy Share Image
The great thing about fairy tales and folk tales is that there is no authentic text. — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“It is interesting that the worst retellings of traditional fairy tales are those that heavy-handedly take the step of making a moral… — Isobelle Carmody Copy Share Image
“Surely she knows --like I do--that fairy tales are just stories. That happy endings aren't real.” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Don't rush into love. Remember that even in fairy-tales, the happy endings take place on the last page. — Rachel Copeland Copy Share Image
Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“Truly, there is magic in fairy tales. For it takes but a simply-uttered 'Once upon a time...' to allure and spellbind an… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods. — Laurie Halse Anderson Copy Share Image
Happily Ever Afters are only for fairy tales there is no Happily Ever Afters in the real world its called being realistic. — Serenity C Copy Share Image
Fairy tales cross generational lines, and how you respond to them depends on when in your life you're seeing them. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Man, Grandma, what big hair you have." "The better to style with, my dear.” — Neal Shusterman 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