You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would… — Meredith Grey Copy Share Image
“As long as we're young, we manage to find excuses for the stoniest indifference, the most blatant caddishness, we put them down… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“When does real love begin? At first it was a fire, eclipses, short circuits, lightning and fireworks; the incense, hammocks, drugs, wines,… — Anaïs Nin 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
“Mrs. Pott's 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
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
“The road goes west out of the village, past open pine woods and gallberry flats. An eagle's nest is a ragged cluster… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings 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
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Apart from such visits, for the first time in her life Eliza was truly alone. In the beginning, unfamiliar sounds, nocturnal sounds,… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
One of the basic motifs in fairy tales is that you find the poor and unfortunate along the side of the road,… — George Lucas 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
“I tell them: don’t depend on a woodsman in the third act. I tell them: look for sets of three, or seven.… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“The fairy tale of film—created with the magic of animation—is the modern equivalent of the great parables of the Middle Ages. Creation… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image
“In answer, the news of the Gospel is that extraordinary things happen. ... Lear goes berserk on a heath but comes out… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I love monsters, I love creatures, I love beings, I love aliens. That's more supernatural and more the stuff of fairy tales.… — Denis O'Hare Copy Share Image
“Even Story Time was political. Miss Mumbi infused each fairytale with Kenyan flavour. She illustrated these remixes on the blackboard. 'Rapunzel' became… — Diriye Osman Copy Share Image
“The fairy tale is not the conclusion, but the doorway to a more brilliant reality. Pushed onto a pedestal as the final… — Natalie Nyquist Copy Share Image
If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit.… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
“He strips me to my last nakedness, that underskin of mauve, pearlized satin, like a skinned rabbit; then dresses me again in… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I love fairy tales because of their haunting beauty and magical strangeness. They are set in worlds where anything can happen. Frogs… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
Nothing is ever perfect. You have to make compromises and sacrifices, and it won't always be as glamorous as the fairy tales… — Nicholas Galitzine Copy Share Image
“But Tom was no believer in fairy tales and miracles. He could walk through a bluebell wood and not see a single… — Joanne Harris Copy Share Image
“Andersen himself believed that many of his finest stories were written after travels to Rome, Naples, Constantinople, and Athens in 1841. He… — Maria Tatar Copy Share Image
The greatest admission a human can make is that perhaps he does not have the intelligence, the vision, the grasp to fully… — Neal Asher Copy Share Image
“You will not be punished for those beliefs in our nation of individual freedoms. But I do think the vast majority of… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
“Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been… — Gratis P. Spencer Copy Share Image
A parent who from his own childhood experience is convinced of the value of fairy tales will have no difficulty in answering… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales. That was all she could remember about fairies, and as she tried desperately to recall the ones she'd heard or… — Emma Bull Copy Share Image
“Yet Katie held fast to the dream that perhaps there were men in the world who appreciated good women - men capable… — Marcia Lynn McClure Copy Share Image
“Foxbrush sneezed again. He couldn't help himself. It's not something a fellow likes to do when a stunningly beautiful woman is leaning… — Anne Elisabeth Stengl Copy Share Image
“Sofia smiled at me. “You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here’s a hint—ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you,… — Rachel Cohn Copy Share Image
“You've honey on your tongue, ma fifille," Maman once said. "If you'd lived in earlier times, you could have been a troubadour."… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“I didn’t believe you when you said there was a red statue that read “LOVE,” with the LO stacked on top of… — Matthew Quick 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
“...today, I’m writing about the extraordinary; those ‘moments’ in life that reach us, and change us. Those moments take place all the… — Dianna Hardy Copy Share Image
“I was too fresh from childhood. Subconsciously, my deepest brain still a cupboard of fairy tales, I suppose I believed that if… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
