We are faced with the task of convincing a myth infatuated world that love and curiosity are sufficient and you don't have… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
What I like about fairy tales is that they highlight the emotions within a story. The situations aren't real, with falling stars… — Charlie Cox Copy Share Image
“Vampires were fairy tales and magic. They were the wolf in the forest that ran ahead to grandmother’s house, the video game… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“...little girls are raised on fairy tales. No one ever tells you that sad things stay sad, some people die angry and… — Lisa Unger Copy Share Image
“The children will need new stories and fairy tales to see them through their nightmares and daydreams, to transfigure their sorrows and… — Keith Donohue Copy Share Image
“Trousers don’t suit cats, messire,’ replied the cat with great dignity. ‘Why don’t you tell me to wear boots? Cats always wear… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about… — Regina Doman Copy Share Image
“It has generally been assumed that fairy tales were first created for children and are largely the domain of children. But nothing… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“BELIEVING IS SEEING what you want! Seeing, might be believing, what you don't want! Your inside eyes are your special sight, to… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
“But certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference. I should have liked to begin this story in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As long as we're young, we manage to find excuses for the stoniest indifference, the most blatant caddishness, we put them down… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
“When does real love begin? At first it was a fire, eclipses, short circuits, lightning and fireworks; the incense, hammocks, drugs, wines,… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales, that fantasy of what your life would… — Meredith Grey Copy Share Image
“We thought she'd save him. We all hoped so much that she'd save him because it would have been like a fairy… — Fredrik Backman Copy Share Image
Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales.… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
There have been a number of us working very, very hard to bring myth and fairy tales into public consciousness, through fantasy… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Everyone knew you shouldn't go biting into fruit offered to you by magical creatures in the woods, even if you'd thought until… — Molly Ringle Copy Share Image
“Every time he said those words it was like a supernova of joy exploding inside me. I just didn’t yet know that… — David Clawson Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality -- for mine was a world… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“think of the prequels like snap shots of a magical land you're about to visit soon. I like to think of them… — Cameron Jace Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think we can learn everything we need to know about the world when we read fairy tales. Be careful, be… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
The words 'fairy tales' must accordingly be taken to include tales in which occurs something 'fairy,' something extraordinary - fairies, giants, dwarfs,… — Joseph Jacobs 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
“Ever since Eliza had discovered the book of fairy tales . . . had disappeared inside its faded pages, she'd understood the… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
“Outbreaks of unvarnished truths in the backyard of our true self can be very precious and inspiring, even though we might inconsistently… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“a gang of unpredictable ruffians by day who turned to enthralling storytellers after dark. "I would sometimes join them, and listen for… — Russell S. Bonds Copy Share Image
All the atoms of our bodies will be blown into space in the disintegration of the solar system, to live on forever… — Carolyn Porco 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
In kindergarten that used to be my job, to tell them fairytales. I liked Hans Christian Andersen, and the Grimm fairy tales,… — Francis Ford Coppola Copy Share Image
“Think of every fairy-tale villainess you've ever heard of. Think of the wicked witches, the evil queens, the mad enchantresses. Think of… — Jim Butcher 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
How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What works about fairy tales is that they endure, and the great thing about fairy tales is that you can explore big,… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
“This person is actually invoking a career in taking advantage of people, deluding people, indoctrinating children, fighting against reality, opposing social progress… — Noah Lugeons Copy Share Image
Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story, when our… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit… — Kate Morton Copy Share Image
The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
