Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated! — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“Fairy tales are make believe and reality sucks, but I happen to live in both worlds.” — Emily Hodson Copy Share Image
A child gets moral notions from the fairy-tales he delights in, as do his elders from tale and verse. — Charlotte Mason Copy Share Image
“As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast…” — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
“Too many books. . . too many fairy tales led him to believe that there was something romantic in being a soldier.” — Elizabeth Nelson Copy Share Image
“at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.” — Susan Wiggs Copy Share Image
There was a place in childhood that I remember well, And there a voice of sweetest tone bright fairy tales did tell. — Samuel Lover Copy Share Image
I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature. — Trudi Canavan Copy Share Image
I was interested in dark subject matter for sure, including folklore, fairy tales, mythology, archetypal stories of people going into the bowels… — Robert Eggers Copy Share Image
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow… — Jack Zipes Copy Share Image
“IF I HAD a dime for every time I’ve heard “We’re all going to die” or “I’ll kill you,” I could afford… — J.C. Nelson Copy Share Image
I loved reading Grimm's fairy tales and Hans Christian Andersen, and I loved to dream about other worlds and other lives. Maybe… — Lauren Bacall Copy Share Image
I am not a great believer in fairy tales. Every woman should fight hard for her own happy endings. Although occasionally it… — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once… — Eleanor Tomlinson Copy Share Image
“When we think about fairy tales, we think about happily ever afters, forgetting the darkness that stories beginning with "once upon a… — Laura J. Burns Copy Share Image
“His reality was turned into dust the day it collided with her universe. For the first time, he wanted to get lost… — Akshay Vasu Copy Share Image
“Estates are sometimes held by foolish forms, the breaking of a stick or the payment of a peppercorn. I was willing to… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“Z ipes’s concerns overlap with those of feminists such as Marcia Lieberman, Karen Rowe, Sandra Gilbert, Susan Gubar, and, to a lesser… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of… — Ayaan Hirsi Ali Copy Share Image
We go through life at first, thinking it's a happy place, where fairy tales happen, and people live happily ever after, and… — Rachel Copy Share Image
I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I did translations of Grimms' Fairy Tales and became very charmed about that way of looking at things. Fairy tales tell a… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
“Yorick's Used and Rare Books had a small storefront on Channing but a deep interior shaded by tall bookcases crammed with history,… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
I wanted Yoda to be the traditional kind of character you find in fairy tales and mythology. And that character is usually… — George Lucas Copy Share Image
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
The naive was only a part of my fairy tales; humour was the real salt in them. — Hans Christian Andersen Copy Share Image
“In fairy tales they all seem perfect, but really they are just as troubled as we are!” — Teal Vitler Copy Share Image
“How does it feel?' he asked. 'To be stuck in a fairy tale?' 'How does it feel to be one?' I countered...” — Holly Black Copy Share Image
From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
Fairy tales, which teach a moral lesson, are about ourselves. Myth deals with forces greater than ourselves. — James Lapine Copy Share Image
“The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
If you want to tell grown-up fairy tales, you have to look for the dark side. — Juan Antonio Bayona Copy Share Image
“Bedtime tales, myths, legends, fairy tales, lie the lessons and examples of what a Goddess would do.” — Emma Mildon Copy Share Image
“In spite of life's unpredictable, callous ways, I still believe in fairy tales.” — Terry a O'Neal Copy Share Image
“I’m glad she’s so smitten with her new huntsman boyfriend and all, but venison-wurst? Gag me with a harpsichord.” — Nicki Elson Copy Share Image
God, people say 'Black Mirror' was horrible - it's nothing compared to the stuff that happens in 'Grimms' Fairy Tales.' It's mind-bending. — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive. — Sam Lipsyte Copy Share Image
“I am not a gentle shepherd like the ones in fairy tales, but a good woodsman who shares with you earth, wind,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
“This was how normal people survived their own fairy tales. They became their own kind of monster.” — Emily Lloyd-Jones Copy Share Image
“He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.” — Priya Ardis Copy Share Image
![“It's [Jack the Giant Slayer] one of those fairy tales your mom and dad read to you when you're little. Never once did I imagine myself in it. It's just phenomenal. Words just can't really describe it. It brings the biggest smile to my face.” quote by Eleanor Tomlinson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/300/eleanor-tomlinson-15329_dad_it-s-jack-the-giant-slayer-one-of-those_1047285.png)
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