“Salinger was not cutesy. His work was not nostalgic. These were not fairy tales about child geniuses traipsing the streets of Old… — Joanna Rakoff Copy Share Image
“She adored fairy tales, yet derived great reward rewriting them to the melody of her own warrior soul. Her fairytales weren’t made… — Melody Lee Copy Share Image
Storybook endings, fairy tales coming true. Deep down inside we want to believe they still do. In our secretest heart, it's our… — Carrie Underwood 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
“Fairy tales are just true stories that humans have chosen not to believe in any more. Besides, this is Myths and Legends… — Stacie Simpson Copy Share Image
She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Pretty smiles deceiving laughs and people who dream with their eyes open lonely children unanswered cries and souls who have given up… — Tupac Copy Share Image
Fairy tales had been her first experience of the magical universe, and more than once she had wondered why people ended up… — Paulo Coelho 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
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
“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
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
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
“All stories in which children have adventures and successes which are possible, in the sense that they do not break the laws… — Joe Rigney Copy Share Image
Fairy tales have rules. You are a princess or you aren’t. You are pure at heart or you aren’t. If you are… — Richard Siken Copy Share Image
I wanted the chance to look again at very famous stories and see what made them work well, whether there were any… — Philip Pullman Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales say that apples were golden only to refresh the forgotten moment when we found that they were green. They make… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as… — Marie Curie Copy Share Image
I've read Reverend Kirk, in fact. My uncle's library has quite a few books of your people. I have read Mr. Lang's… — Melissa Marr Copy Share Image
I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
If you are watching a fairy tale, that's why you go to fairy tales: you want these uncomplicated stories and uncomplicated characters.… — Clare-Hope Ashitey Copy Share Image
“To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case. To exist in the passive case is to… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I… — Gail Carson Levine Copy Share Image
I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
“People seem always actually to know, with a degree of pain that has required the comfort of fairy tales, that when you… — Anne Hollander Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“Now Arthur, if humans could learn to gaze with their eyes or use their special sight, they would realize there is more… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
“I think often there is no good way out of something. No nice, easy ending or neat resolution, no clear way to… — Elana K. Arnold Copy Share Image
The naturalist worldview is a good way to feel grounded and feel part of something that isn't based on fairy tales. It's… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“Luna had told us not to drop the rose, not to leave the path. But we never dropped the rose - it… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
My family was big on sharing. I guess it was just the way I was brought up. Or maybe, I read those… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke… — Tim Burton Copy Share Image
“That is the true crime that fairy tales commit - making people like me think that we counted in this world. I… — John Goode Copy Share Image
“He'd practically saved her life! It was so…romantic. Just like in fairy tales. Just like Westley saved Buttercup in The Princess Bride.… — Jennifer Ziegler Copy Share Image
The Czech movies, the quality movies, are trying to show the life in the country as it is, in an entertaining way,… — Milos Forman Copy Share Image
... the world can give you these glimpses as well as fairy tales can--the smell of rain, the dazzle of sun on… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
“I shook my head. “I thought you had a ‘No princesses’ rule.” “Rules are made to be broken,” said Grimm. Ari sat… — J.C. Nelson Copy Share Image
