“There’s danger in separating yourself from everyone, not wanting anyone to see inside of you where you’re vulnerable. We know the world… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“It's because you're letting the fairy tales you grew up hearing in storybooks and the baseless ideas of love cloud your mind.… — Nicole Williams 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
When you think of Grimm's fairy tales, they are deeply, deeply psychological. They're so powerful, so bloody, and really, really disturbing. Think… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
Okay. I wish for world peace,” Weetzie said. “I am sorry,” the genie said. “I cant grant that wish. Its out of… — Francesca Lia Block 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
A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
What is a novel? I say: an invented story. At the same time a story which, though invented has the power to… — Elizabeth Bowen 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
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
“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
“I think people should take mythology much more seriously, because it tells us an awful lot about the history of the human… — Jan Siegel 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
“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
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
It’s my own fault, really. For believing in fairy tales. Not that I ever mistook them for actual historical fact, or anything.… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
“Dr. Manning said he'd thought at first it might be sleeping sickness, or even narcolepsy, whatever that was, but - no, Pete… — Henry Kuttner Copy Share Image
“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
Thats not to say that you should never take care of or stand up for yourself in situations that involve abuse and… — Joanna Mae Lagud Copy Share Image
“HAZEL WASN’T PROUD OF CRYING. After the tunnel collapsed, she wept and screamed like a two-year-old throwing a tantrum. She couldn’t move… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The children know all about everything so well that it never occurs to them to play at the situations in any one… — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“With the sounds of Rock and Roll and Sherry’s intoxicating laugh moving you though every memory—you’re sure to be captivated by this… — Penn Press Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum 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
“When you truly believe in the desires of your heart, they show themselves to you, creating a world you wish to see.… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
“So many fairy tales were about breaking taboos, and being punished for crossing lines you shouldn't have crossed. Touching a spindle you… — Sarah Cross 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
“It wasn't chance at all, Gilly. People are yearning creatures. They imagine and strive and hope. Stories about an enchanted band of… — Kristopher Reisz Copy Share Image
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“I really feel that we're not giving children enough credit for distinguishing what's right and what's wrong. I, for one, devoured fairy… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... were not perfect in the beginning. It's only a happy… — PEACH-PIT Copy Share Image
“If I had been born in the 1700′s, presumably children had a bigger vocabulary than I had which means I wouldn’t have… — John Branyan Copy Share Image
I used to believe in fairy tales, used to believe that the nice guy was truly the hero, then reality proved me… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Because men are killing the forests the fairy tales are running away. The spindle doesn't know whom to prick, the little girl's… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“Never and never, my girl riding far and near In the land of the hearthstone tales, and spelled asleep, Fear or believe… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Many cultural stories worldwide present the domination system as the only human alternative. Fairy tales romanticize the rule of kings and queens… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“Evil demons dwelling in underworlds, Gods sitting on-high, angels battling and protecting. We have become so wrapped up in these stories, and… — L.M. Browning Copy Share Image
