Fairy Quote by Erin Morgenstern

“He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on…

— Erin Morgenstern

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a…

— Donald Miller

“He talks as the man of his age talks -- that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for…

— raymond chandler

“He had built up within himself a kind of sanctuary in which she throned among his secret thoughts and longings. Little by little it…

— Edith Wharton

“...his consuming interest remains in the world of men, their institutions, their history, their passions. And because he is interested in men, nothing that…

— Peter L. Berger

“He was a goat tethered to the peg of his own character and could only consume the riches of the earth that came within…

— Winston Graham

“Periodically throughout his life, he would seek comfort in his troubles by lurching into the wilderness, only to find more loneliness there and end…

— Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith ·

“Fairy tales are full of girls who wait, who endure, who suffer. Good girls. Obedient girls. Girls who crush nettles until their hands bleed.…

— Holly Black

“Emma Gladstone had learned a few hard lessons by the age of two-and-twenty. Charming princes weren’t always what they seemed. Shining armor went out…

— Tessa Dare

And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read…

— Erin Morgenstern

His life has been lived, so far, within narrow limits and he is quite naïve about most kinds of experience; he fears it and…

— Christopher Isherwood

“Often I felt that these men were play-acting: the unreality of their role was their security, even their own destinies were to them saga…

— Halldór Laxness