“In olden times, when wishing still helped....” - The Frog King | The Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm” — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
We believed the fairy tales we told our children and we loved them beyond reason even when we were green and bungling… — Marlena De Blasi Copy Share Image
“All these threads, like the ley-lines he'd read about in his Time-Life history books, converging on the Cicciaro girl, who lay there… — Garth Risk Hallberg Copy Share Image
...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of. — Andrew Lang 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
“Our traditions teach us the past is not forgot, yet the past repeats the future believe it or not. If we dwell… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“My aunt and my mother read to me when I was three from all the old Grimm fairy tales, Andersen fairy tales,… — Ray Bradbury 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
On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. — Laurence Housman Copy Share Image
“If our life is ever really as beautiful as a fairy tale, we shall have to remember that all the beauty of… — G.K. Chesterton 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
“When you are open and aware, it allows for all magical possibilities! We, here in the forest, can see all that goes… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
“I remember a time where Trolls were a fictitious monster from fairy tales, not arseholes on the internet looking for attention.” — Robert O'Sullivan Copy Share Image
SO if love in fairy tales can't be real why is it in the end you seem to find the one boy… — Me Copy Share Image
The problem with fairy tales? They teach that as long as you're beautiful you can have whatever you want. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Dragons and bridges are very much something out of fairy tales and fantasy. — John Howe 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
“Why do I feel this response makes Kartik much like governesses who tell their charges grisly fairy tales before bed and then… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
“He believed in magic, like a child, and in ghosts, like a peasant. His nose was broken by a falling volume of… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy… — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
We both want the world But we both know that this gets old If I could open up my chest then maybe… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
“Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
“It might be noted here that Freudian analysts of fairy tales have suggested that kissing toads and frogs is symbolized fellatio. In… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image