Fairy tale Quote by Amber D. Tran

“Nothing is sadder than a child burdened by reality, after all. Those stories were our family fairy tales.”

— Veronica Montes

“A normal life? Now that's the real fairytale.”

— Judith Graves

“I have such faith in words that when I read about such families as a child, I thought that they were the norm and…

— E.L. Konigsburg

“By today’s standards, if you go by the early morning TV misery shows, my broken home family of mixed parentage siblings was quite normal.”

— Hailey Giblin

“The happy family is a myth for many.”

— Carolyn Spring

“The saddest thing of growing up is people no longer believe in fairy tales.”

— Cao Đức Trọng

“How stupid. My mom and dad had lost each other, and for what? So they could fit better at their parents’ tables at Christmas…

— Joshilyn Jackson

“In my family strange is relative.”

— Kate Rockland

“According to Aunt Jolene, she was so young.  Having a baby was overwhelming.  My dad bailed on her.  She was lost and went wild.”

— Chelsea Camaron

“After that, nothing was the same. The very notion of my having a family turned vague, hard to credit, even weirdly jokey.”

— Michael Wyndham Thomas

“You are the fairy tale told by your ancestors.”

— Toba Beta

“They were the sisterhood: their mothers at a younger age.”

— Ann Brashares