“I needed to go into that bare, with nothing from my own life on my body, the way woodcutters' children in fairy… — Tana French Copy Share Image
“Are you the same woman I brought here, Sasha? You're like a kid at Christmastime."--Monroe "You would be, too, if someone fulfilled… — Bethany Averie Copy Share Image
“Let’s talk about the hair. Why do I call it “yellow” hair and not “blond” hair? Because I’m pretty sure everybody calls… — Tina Fey Copy Share Image
“It's kind of strange...All these so-called myths and fables. Everyone seems to have the same ones. They cross cultures and continents. Everyone… — Maurissa Guibord Copy Share Image
Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the… — Helen Oyeyemi Copy Share Image
“They must be looking everywhere for you," said Tawny, stretching out her wings to their full span - which was very far… — Suzy Davies Copy Share Image
Aren’t all fairy tales based in fact? You yourself are supposed to be nothing more than a myth. Pandora’s box is a… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
“And fairy tales are make-believe. They are the stories we tell to small children to make them believe the world is a… — J.L. Vallance Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“The road goes west out of the village, past open pine woods and gallberry flats. An eagle's nest is a ragged cluster… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
“Mrs. Pott's beady black eyes narrowed,"Do you know how many glass slippers I have to stitch when I get home? There's a… — Sophie Avett Copy Share Image
I have always enjoyed dealing with a slightly surrealistic situation and presenting it in a realistic manner. I've always liked fairy tales… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
One of the basic motifs in fairy tales is that you find the poor and unfortunate along the side of the road,… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
“Apart from such visits, for the first time in her life Eliza was truly alone. In the beginning, unfamiliar sounds, nocturnal sounds,… — Kate Morton 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
Though fairy tales end after ten pages, our lives do not. We are multi-volume sets. In our lives, even though one episode… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“you can't untie this knot by listening to fairy tales you have to do something inside yourself the smallest fountain inside of… — Jalaluddin Rumi Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my… — Susannah Grant Copy Share Image
“It is perfectly all right for children to believe in fairy tales. Believing in dragons and other imaginary creatures may scare them… — John Taskinsoy Copy Share Image
“Vampires were hardly the monsters we were made out to be in fairy tales and television shows. We were hardly different from… — Chloe Neill Copy Share Image
“...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.' 'Does she say… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I think it is nice to be a little magical. Today we need this. All that we can read in fairy tales… — Klaus Nomi Copy Share Image
Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy.… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
“I didn’t know how to read. Mother was my library. I read mother One day The world will be at peace Man… — Zhu Xiao-Mei Copy Share Image
Eyes Tell Stories But do they know how to craft fiction? Do they know how to spin lies? His eyes swear forever,… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
“Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“I will tell you, too, that every fairy tale has a moral. The moral of my story may be that love is… — Theodora Goss Copy Share Image
“The term - 'Fairy-Tales' is so ironical in itself, when I sometimes sit to write love stories with a happy ending, it… — Mehek Bassi 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
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
“Possibilities I prefer movies. I prefer cats. I prefer the oaks along the Warta. I prefer Dickens to Dostoyevsky. I prefer myself… — wislawa szymborska Copy Share Image
“Therese was propped up on one elbow. The milk was so hot, she could barely let her lip touch it at first.… — Patricia Highsmith 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
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
“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
“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
All my life Ive made up fairy tales of my prince charming. Countless Cinderella stories that helped make my fairy tale a… — Reezy Copy Share Image
Those who love fairy-tales do not like it when people speak of the innate tendencies in mankind toward aggression, destruction, and, in… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
ROXANE: Live, for I love you! CYRANO: No, In fairy tales When to the ill-starred Prince the lady says 'I love you!'… — Edmond Rostand 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
