If you look at children's stories in fairy tales, they're pretty brutal. — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
“Children need fairy tales because they can see only black and white.” — Teresa Jordan Copy Share Image
“I'm not a princess but Ryan is a knight, he just belongs to someone else.” — Katie McGarry Copy Share Image
“As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast…” — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell. — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated! — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds.” — Emily Hodson Copy Share Image
We cling to our fairy tales until the price for believing in them becomes too high. — Ransom Riggs Copy Share Image
Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time. — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile… — Victoria Aveyard Copy Share Image
Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
Though aware that there is nothing in the universe that suggests any purpose for humanity, one way that we can find a… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“READ. You have no business wanting to be a writer unless you are a reader. You should read fantasies and essays, biographies… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
Nicholas wanted to believe in fairy tales. She'd read her share, hoping for miracles, but in the end, there was no hundred… — Christine Feehan Copy Share Image
“Madame d'Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyland, with its manners, its… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I think the big thing is the fairy tale. It's taking old folk fairy tales and retelling them in modern day. I… — Lily Collins Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales with all the shine taken away from them were simply stories of desperation. Of hungry wolves devouring children and jealous… — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
I am 39. I am single. I am a black woman. I have too many advanced degrees. Many a news story tells… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“But something happened at 21, something wonderful, something amazing. I feel in love for the first time in my life…real love. The… — Katherine Childress Copy Share Image
“In Russian fairy tales, the narrative flows a little differently. In those stories, you won’t find a tale for Cinderella, one for… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
“All of the great mythologies and much of the mythic story-telling of the world are from the male point of view. When… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“I do not despise believers. I find them neither ridiculous nor pathetic, but I lose all hope when I see that they… — Michel Onfray Copy Share Image
In this life you have to be your own hero. By that I mean you have to win whatever it is that… — Jeanette Winterson 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
Girls.. stop waiting for that perfect boy. He's not out there. There's no such things as fairy tales. You're life isn't an… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My mother might find a thin gold chain at the back of a drawer, wadded into an impossibly tight knot, and give… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I don't believe I should go on pretending, I don't believe in fairy tales — Jason Derulo Copy Share Image
