“There are no rationalists. We all believe fairy-tales, and live in them.” — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth. — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“What are they supposed to do when they've been told their whole lives not to believe in fairy tales?” — Heather O'Neill Copy Share Image
“...[G]enuine fairy tales are not stories about miracles, but rather announcements of the miraculous advent of justice.” — Siegfried Kracauer Copy Share Image
“That's it? That's all that happens after you topple from grace? We lose our rubies and rations?" Marshall smirked. "Woe is me.” — Sophie Avett Copy Share Image
Soils and national characters differ, but fairy tales are the same in plot and incidents, if not in treatment. — Joseph Jacobs Copy Share Image
“It looked like he was going to die, but as you know, children don’t die in fairy tales. While” — Michèle Audin Copy Share Image
I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind… — Lucile Hadzihalilovic Copy Share Image
“Your American fairytales end that way. Real fairytales end in blood or tears.” — Luna Lindsey Copy Share Image
“Because, no matter how old we get, we always need to believe in fairytales.” — Kristen Ashley Copy Share Image
“Our imaginings (if they are ours) should be based in our own lives and experiences, all our memories. But all of our… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Following your dreams may seem as something out of a book of fairy tales for some, but the following of dreams is… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he… — Eloisa James Copy Share Image
“I caught his hand. “What do you want me to do?” Leaning down, he kissed the pulse beating on my neck just… — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
“Disheartened, enraptured, and strangely lightheaded, Grady emerged from the trees and walked back through town to the island bridge, his ankles and… — Molly Ringle Copy Share Image
“On Three Ways of Writing for Children”: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
Being an actor and a successful one at that, is the stuff fairy-tales are made of, as you reach unimaginable heights. But… — Shweta Bachchan Nanda Copy Share Image
“As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions,… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“I'll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... were not perfect in the beginning. It's only a happy… — PEACH-PIT Copy Share Image
“I really feel that we're not giving children enough credit for distinguishing what's right and what's wrong. I, for one, devoured fairy… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
“It wasn't chance at all, Gilly. People are yearning creatures. They imagine and strive and hope. Stories about an enchanted band of… — Kristopher Reisz Copy Share Image
A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and… — Upton Sinclair Copy Share Image
“Because men are killing the forests the fairy tales are running away. The spindle doesn't know whom to prick, the little girl's… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
“Never and never, my girl riding far and near In the land of the hearthstone tales, and spelled asleep, Fear or believe… — Dylan Thomas Copy Share Image
“Many cultural stories worldwide present the domination system as the only human alternative. Fairy tales romanticize the rule of kings and queens… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image