Of course, fairies are all imported in North America. We have no native fairies. The Little People do not long survive importation… — Robertson Davies Copy Share Image
I've always thought fairies are like mushrooms, you trip over them when you're not thinking about them, but they're hard to spot… — Jo Walton 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
“He is not a prince, and you are not a princess, and real life is not a fairytale. Happily-ever-afters are not handed… — Jillian Eaton Copy Share Image
“The problem with Happily Ever After is that when you live far beyond the terms of most Ever After’s there is just… — R.G. Dole Copy Share Image
“It was not the time to recall all those really horrifying nursery stories she'd read, Bluebeard, Babes in the Wood, Little Red… — Karen Ranney Copy Share Image
She's one of those soppy girls, riddled from head to foot with whimsy. She holds the view that the stars are God's… — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
“The Flowers All the names I know from nurse: Gardener's garters, Shepherd's purse, Bachelor's buttons, Lady's smock, And the Lady Hollyhock. Fairy… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
“Of course, fairy tales are transmissible. You can catch them, or be infected by them. They are the currency that we share… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
[T]he final step in becoming an urban farmer is the naming of your farm, even if your name is simply for the… — Greg Peterson Copy Share Image
“A lot of the stories were highly suspicious, in her opinion. There was the one that ended when the two good children… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
This is exactly the message that fairy tales get across to the child in manifold form: that a struggle against severe difficulties… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
You say that if we hadn't just gotten married, you would want to marry Miss Arkansas. Even if she can't spell. She… — Kelly Link Copy Share Image
Never did form more fairy thread the dance Than she who scours the hills to find it flowers; Never did sweeter lips… — Alfred Austin Copy Share Image
I want to tell women that you need to love yourself and make yourself a priority. It's only when you are happy… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
“When Grant opened the door, he thought she looked like some fairy princess-part ingenue,part seductress. Her eyes met his in the glass,… — Nora Roberts Copy Share Image
“The Gospel is the ultimate fairy-story, Tolkien concludes, because it contains "the greatest and most complete conceivable eucatastrophe… There is no tale… — Ralph C. Wood Copy Share Image
When...did it become irrational to dislike religion, any religion, even to dislike it vehemently? When did reason get redescribed as unreason? When… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale:… — Teresa Nielsen Hayden Copy Share Image
When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
True love was forever lost. The prince was never coming back to kiss me awake from my enchanted sleep. I was not… — Stephenie Meyer Copy Share Image
I know she's shy. I know she doesn't have very many friends. I just want her to be strong, you know? To… — Enchanted Copy Share Image
She always did like tales of adventure-stories full of brightness and darkness. She could tell you the names of all King Arthur's… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared for, on this… — Clarence Day Copy Share Image
Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
If somebody had told me when I was starting composition in Helsinki in the '70s that I would end up in L.A.… — Esa-Pekka Salonen Copy Share Image
“Here’s the first thing you need to know: all the fairy tales are true. Oh, the specific events that the Brothers Grimm… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Creationists reject Darwin's theory of evolution on the grounds that it is "just a theory". This is a valid criticism: evolution is… — Charlie Brooker Copy Share Image
Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“you're a fairy? sure, Tinker bell. pull the other leg while your at it." "you see? that's the problem with mortals. we… — Christine Warren Copy Share Image
In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever… — Cate Tiernan Copy Share Image
“Europe enjoyed a heritage of fairy tales alive with talking animals--some almost real, other deliciously bogus-- to spark child's fantasies and gallop… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“What do you tell someone who hasn't live through it all? Try to explain what it's like, living under a pressure-front of… — Michael Montoure Copy Share Image
Do you think if it was the fairy tale about a man who lived inside of a whale and it was religion… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
We’re vampires,” he said. “Not fairies.” “Sometimes I’m not so sure about that. You see that study your king hangs out in?”… — J.R. Ward Copy Share Image
I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
There is something infinitely better than happily-ever-after. There is happiness. Happiness is a living, dynamic thing, Eve, and has to be worked… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
“This is how every fairy tale starts. With the storyteller explaining to the reader just how it is. There once was a… — Michael F. Stewart Copy Share Image