“When the bald associate had mentioned a sleeping beauty, he was referring to a fairy tale that you have probably heard one… — Lemony Snicket Copy Share Image
“I'd get out of here," he said. "Go someplace where no one knew me. Start over. Go to Paris like you did… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
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How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
“In the old stories, despite the impossibility of the incidents, the interest is always real and human. The princes and princesses fall… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
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“Birthdays were wretched, delicious things when you lived in Beau Rivage. The clock stuck midnight, and presents gave way to magic. Curses… — Sarah Cross Copy Share Image
“The television dramas we grew up on, stories of star-crossed lovers, stories of love overcoming all obstacles, well, they’re all fairy tales,… — Anthony Marra Copy Share Image
This is for girls..-stop waiting for that 'perfect' guy.he's not out there.there is no such things as fairy tales.if you push that… — Trueman Copy Share Image
“Eight years! you must be tenacious of life. I thought half the time in such a place would have done up any… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
William Shakespeare was the most remarkable storyteller that the world has ever known. Homer told of adventure and men at war, Sophocles… — Marchette Chute Copy Share Image
“When relationships have outlived their shelf life, people often realize that at some level, they are sticking it our because they once… — Ramani Durvasula Copy Share Image
The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman,… — Meryl Streep Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps… — Marie Rutkoski Copy Share Image
“Yet, with all his acuteness, it did not occur to him that Europe was not in the least to blame for his… — Lev Shestov Copy Share Image
“Real fairy tales are not for the faint hearted. In them, children get eaten by witches and chased by wolves; women fall… — Samantha van Leer Copy Share Image
“[Loki] was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering,… — A.S. Byatt Copy Share Image
In a sense, every human construction, whether mental or material, is a component in a landscape of fear because it exists in… — Yi-Fu Tuan Copy Share Image
In horror stories or in fairy tales, the fascination with the morbid is also, at least for me, a way to prepare… — Cindy Sherman Copy Share Image
“Besides, she likes my stories. They are like fairy tales, I suppose, full of kings and queens and adventures. Ma says people… — Kristin Kladstrup Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales, then, are not responsible for producing in children fear, or any of the shapes of fear; fairy tales do not… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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“Once upon a time there was a great queen who, having given birth to twin daughters, invited twelve fairies who lived nearby… — Marie-Catharine d'Aulnoy Copy Share Image
“There were two things about this particular book ( The Golden Book of Fairy Tales ) that made it vital to the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Perhaps I should admit on the title page that this book is "By L. Frank Baum and his correspondents," for I have… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
“Each word was shaped with certainty, and I felt, more strongly than ever before in my life, that I had at last… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
“She'd heard the word before; seraphim were some high order of angels, at least according to the Christian mythos, for which Brimstone… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
SO if love in fairy tales can't be real why is it in the end you seem to find the one boy… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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