“According to folk belief that is reflected in the stories and poems, a being who is petrified man and he can revive.… — Penina Mezei Copy Share Image
“You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here’s a hint—ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you, it wasn’t just the… — David Levithan Copy Share Image
And we carry onWhen our lives come undoneWe carry onCause there's promise in the morning sunWe carry onAs the dark surrenders to… — Tim McGraw Copy Share Image
“One day I found him amid large packages from which spilled attractive, glossy paperbacks with mythical covers. He had tried to use,… — Stanisław Lem Copy Share Image
“Over the last three centuries our historical reception of folk and fairy tales has been so negatively twisted by aesthetic norms, educational… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?" she asked him, indulging herself and… — Erin McCarthy Copy Share Image
“I wanted, for so long, for someone to understand me better than I understood myself, to take control of me, to save… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
I know fairy tales aren't real! .. You will never really find your real prince charming But, I'm tired of liers and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Today, many of us are trying to understand just what male and female energies are, since we are calling old rigid stereotypes… — Shepherd Hoodwin Copy Share Image
“If you were happy with all you had, then you’d grow, If the sun and moon could make you glad, then you’d… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
“From time to time you'll see documentaries about low-ranked wolves who somehow rise to the top of the pack - an omega… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Asking the proper question is the central action of transformation- in fairy tales, in analysis, and in individuation. The key question causes… — Clarissa Pinkola Estes Copy Share Image
“First we must learn to think mythologically. Powerful things happen when we touch the thinking which myths, fairy tales, and our own… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
Our parents fill our heads with Cinderella, Prince Charming, Big weddings, and white horses...but then we get our heart broken for the… — Ana Chable Copy Share Image
“Fantasy is a natural human activity. It certainly does not destroy or even insult Reason; and it does not either blunt the… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“A kid thinking about fairy tales and believing in fairy tales Acts like a sick god, but like a god. Because even… — Alberto Caeiro Copy Share Image
They say that everything is derived of star dust -- We are the universe simply exploring itself. It's a peculiar thing really,… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
“Leonora is the grownups’ version of Cinderella. She doesn’t take crap from any ugly stepsisters. She doesn’t sit indoors waiting to be… — Luella Christie Copy Share Image
“Books were so simple about these things, fairy tales so straightforward! There were peasants, and then there were kings and queens. Sometimes… — Liz Braswell Copy Share Image
“What I mean is, all the terrible things that happen in fairy tales seem real. Or not real, but genuine. Life is… — Polly Shulman Copy Share Image
“OMG. He's a gift shop, a lamb kebab with mint,/a solar panel poetry machine with biceps. He's the path/through the dark woods,… — Ron Koertge Copy Share Image
Kids know they can't make it alone, yet at the same time, built into each one of us, is a survival ethic.… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“A boy was regarded King to be, in a land only a child could see. We admit it could be a difficult… — Chris DiSano Davenport Copy Share Image
“In The Frog Prince, a beautiful princess drops her golden ball into a deep spring and must allow a frog into her… — Bryan Christy Copy Share Image
For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales,… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
“My first and last philosophy ... I learnt in the nursery... The things I believed then, the things I believe most now,… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“My turn now. The story of one of my insanities. For a long time I boasted that I was master of all… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
“Right,” she said. “Come down off that chair. I think we are ready for the next step.” “What do you mean?” “I… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
“Just as we all like love tales because there is an instinct of sex, we all like astonishing tales because they touch… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Once I thought fairy tales were lies or worse promises spoken yet meant to be broken intent is all. Why do grown… — Justice Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“Maybe the witch thought she was protecting Rapunzel, not punishing her. Maybe she thought that if Rapunzel was locked away, no one… — Alyssa B. Sheinmel Copy Share Image
“This is the list you carry in your pocket, of the things you plan to say to Kay, when you find him,… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
We both want the world But we both know that this gets old If I could open up my chest then maybe… — She's_gone Copy Share Image
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are about trouble, about getting into and out of it, and trouble seems to be a necessary stage on the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over… — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
“Do you know when they say soul-mates? Everybody uses it in personal ads. "Soul-mate wanted". It doesn't mean too much now. But… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“I know now that all people hunger for a noble, unsullied past, that as sure as the black nationalist dreams of a… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
The theoretical fruits of deliberate oversimplification through idealization are not to be denied... Reality in all its messy particularity is too complicated… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
“Your love life is insignificant when it comes to raising your children to be respectable human beings. The moment you see them… — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
