Brides Quote by Anne Sexton

“She lifts the white gown. "The prince loves white." Her fingers caress the satin. "He had your betrothal gown made just for you." (...)…

— Trisha Wolfe

“I wasn’t exactly a stranger to feeling like a princess—if you meant the princess in the first half of the fairy tale. Cinderella as…

— Cara Lynn Shultz

“Some seasons later, the Princess of the kingdom was riding with her handmaiden on the edge of the dark woods. Though once she had…

— Kate Morton

“There’s a reason the hero is always called Prince Charming in all the stories. It’s not just an interchangeable name. It’s the same damned…

— Courtney Milan

“During a famine, the father and stepmother of Hansel and Gretel abandon them in a forest so that they will starve to death. The…

— Steven Pinker

“The Princess Saralinda was tall, with freesias in her dark hair, and she wore serenity brightly like the rainbow. It was not easy to…

— James Thurber

“The carriage was crammed: waves of silk, ribs of three crinolines, billowed, clashed, entwined almost to the height of their heads; beneath was a…

— Giuseppe Di Lampedusa

“She tilted alarmingly and almost fell, but she righted herself at the last moment and hopped several steps. “Darned cat!” “I have to say,…

— K.M. Shea

When a girl hears the story about Snow White for the first time she wishes that she's Snow White with a Prince Charming to…

— Anonymous

“All of the women she saw were young, maybe her own age and they were white as the snow on the ground. They wore…

— Amanda V. Shane

Her sister's shoes. They sparkeled even in the darkening afternoon. They sparkeled like yellow diamonds, and embers of blood and thorny stars.

— Gregory Maguire

“After all, what did Prince Charming know about Cinderella besides her shoe size?”

— Melissa Kantor