Fairy Quote by F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace. For awhile…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Fairytales were maps formed of blood and hair and bones; they were the knots of the sub-conscious unwound. Every word in every tale was…

— Alice Hoffman

That there were other worlds, invisible, unknown, beyond imagination even, was a revelation to him.

— Kim Edwards

The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the…

— Marina Warner

“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

“But fairytales were, at best, dirty mirrors whose warped and pitted surfaces reflected a highly distorted view of the truth, quite different from reality.”

— Nenia Campbell

“At the heart of his paper was the notion that fairy tales relieved us of our need for order and allowed us impossible, irrational…

— Alice Hoffman

Fairy tales and mythology have always been an exaggerated distillation of the real world. Think of them as blueprints for how to deal with…

— Charles de Lint

“We need a visible past, a visible continuum, a visible myth of origin to reassure us as to our ends, since ultimately we have…

— Jean Baudrillard

“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before…

— Mark Twain

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever…

— Frederick Buechner