“Tomber amoureux. To fall in love. Does it occur suddenly or gradually? If gradually, when is the moment “already”? I would fall… — Czeslaw Milosz Copy Share Image
“My head says forget it, my heart says I’ll regret it, and what my stomach tells me, I should not ignore. Oh… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell 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
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“Or in other words: There are no fairy tales in the wild, no Cinderella stories. The lowly wolf that seems to rise… — Jodi Picoult 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
“Marilynn...passed out black cases to everyone. I opened mine to find an iPad inside. Several candidates whistled. Despite my agitated state, it… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
I like that 'once upon a time' quality, where the telling of a tale has an elevated sense of story. There's a… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry. — Max Luthi Copy Share Image
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Potts 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
Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's… — Eric Metaxas Copy Share Image
“Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the… — J. R. R. Tolkien 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
“There are no fairy tales in the wild, no Cinderella stories. The lowly wolf that seems to rise to the top of… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
There seems to be a real taste for the fantastical these days. People like to get back into their imaginations. Maybe there's… — Sasha Roiz Copy Share Image
“Clichés are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes aren’t bad; they go with the territory.” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
