“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
Fiction can show you a different world. It can take you somewhere you've never been. Once you've visited other worlds, like those… — Neil Gaiman 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
“The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams… — Ron Franscell 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
“The fairy had flown over to the window and was peering curiously out at the alley. "Forget it. Stay here," said Dustfinger.… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
“I'm here!" I said..."I'm read to go home!" As if they couldn't see me. As if I couldn't remember what it had… — Carolyn Turgeon 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
Adults trying to protect children from reality, right? And adults always trying to fill children with fantasy - the tooth fairy, Santa,… — Shane Warren Jones Copy Share Image
I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there. I… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A… — Terry McMillan 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
“It must be understood that in some cases the process by which a god or goddess degenerates into a fairy may occupy… — Lewis Spence Copy Share Image
That fool of a fairy Lucinda did not intend to lay a curse on me. She meant to bestow a gift. When… — Gail Carson Levine 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
“I will love you forever,” I murmured, and he stroked the hair off of my forehead. I will hold you to that.”… — Amy Lane Copy Share Image
My phone buzzes. It’s from Karou: a list of conversation openers that I won’t be needing. —a) Hi. I’m Zuzana. I’m actually… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
One of the major dangers of being alone in February is the tendency to dwell on past relationships. Whether you're daydreaming about… — Amy Morin Copy Share Image
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes,… — Rainer Maria Rilke 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
The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“It's the shape of the stories that matters, the way belief forms around it. The story has real weight', He pointed at… — Karen Healey Copy Share Image
“Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
“Well, for starters, you only wear black.” “Because it doesn’t get dirty.” “You don’t ever leave your house.” “People don’t look at… — Soman Chainani Copy Share Image
When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Desiderata was a kindly soul. Fairy godmothers develop a very deep understanding about human nature, which makes the good ones kind and… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“We need not be afraid of expecting the unexpected, but let us wheedle each instant we enjoy and endear each happy moment… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
It's no accident that Cinderella has been in the culture for thousands of years, and in cross cultures. I've traveled a bit… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
I often visit Maria Tatar's 'The Grimm Reader' for a cold dose of courage. Her translations come from the Brothers Grimm, whose… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
[T]he next time you hear serious-sounding people explaining the need for fiscal austerity, try to parse their argument. Almost surely, you'll discover… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
There's no limit to what you can dream. You expect the unexpected, you believe in magic, in fairy tales, and in possibilities.… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing… — Francis Pharcellus Church Copy Share Image
“And those characters [in a fairy tale] dwell in a moral world, whose laws are as clear as the law of gravity.… — Anthony Esolen Copy Share Image
“As I thought about endings and – being a lover of fairy tales – I knew immediately that the deeply rooted last… — Jane Yolen Copy Share Image
“The fairy tale is accused of giving children a false impression of the world they live in. But I think no literature… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Don’t simply exist in this world, but grasp life’s potential by the jacket. Dare it to be all it can. Make life… — Richelle Goodrich Copy Share Image
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