I think, reading the Grimm's fairy tales, they all have some sort of moral component to them, teaching you a lesson. — Claire Coffee Copy Share Image
“The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“I’d like to extend a special thank you to my favorite sins: fairy tales and chick flicks.” — Stephanie Fowers Copy Share Image
“We are told in fairy tales that evil always loses and good eventually will triumph. That is what makes those stories so… — John Goode 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
“In The Frog Prince, a beautiful princess drops her golden ball into a deep spring and must allow a frog into her… — Bryan Christy Copy Share Image
“[Loki] was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Im in love, with a fairytale Even though it hurts Coz I dont care if I lose my mind Im already cursed. — Rachel Copeland 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
The traditional educational theory is to the effect that the way to bring up children is to keep them innocent (i.e., believing… — S. I. Hayakawa Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are not real. However, myths are the historical notes of those who were much wiser than ourselves. We therefore have… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“think of the prequels like snap shots of a magical land you're about to visit soon. I like to think of them… — Cameron Jace Copy Share Image
Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
“Angela Carter...refused to join in rejecting or denouncing fairy tales, but instead embraced the whole stigmatized genre, its stock characters and well-known… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
“Birthdays were wretched, delicious things when you lived in Beau Rivage. The clock stuck midnight, and presents gave way to magic. Curses… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog-undervalued and undermined-even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“Leonora is the grownups’ version of Cinderella. She doesn’t take crap from any ugly stepsisters. She doesn’t sit indoors waiting to be… — Luella Christie Copy Share Image
We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy… — Yakov Smirnoff 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
“Rough palms cradled my face while my fingers gripped the pillow on either side of his. Lips, teeth, tongue, mingled together. I… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up… — Paulo Coelho 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
