"Once upon a time there was a fairy……" — Diane Setterfield
"Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times."
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78 Quotes by Diane Setterfield
Diane Setterfield has 78 quotes on this site.
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There was no single moment when I thought, Aha! What a great idea! Rather there was a slow and gradual…
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People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think of them.
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Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like…
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Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think.…
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I still believe in stories. I still forget myself when I am in the middle of a good book. Books…
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There is something about words. In expert hands, manipulated deftly, they take you prisoner. Wind themselves around your limbs like…
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She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
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A birth is not really a beginning. Our lives at the start are not really our own but only the…
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All children mythologise their birth. It is a universal trait. You want to know someone? Heart, mind and soul? Ask…
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The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually…
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Of course I loved books more than people.
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When I was a child, books were everything. And so there is in me, always, a nostalgic, yearning for the…
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More Fairy Quotes
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she…
— Amy Adams
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the…
— Douglas Adams
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Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
— James M. Barrie
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To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as…
— Annie Besant
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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not…
— William Blake
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I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the…
— Julie Burchill
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
— Beverly Cleary
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You should treat a muse like a fairy.
— Paulo Coelho
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