Fairy tales Quote by Joseph Stanton

“There is a certain amount of the queenly element in every woman, so that she cannot feel perfectly at ease without something to govern,…

— George MacDonald

“She thought of the recurrent waves of pain that for some reason or other she and her husband had had to endure; of the…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“If ultimately there was a tantalizing rectitude about her, she was none the less cunning: her exceeding gentleness, howbeit mitigated sometimes by the disturbing…

— Georges Bataille

“For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her.…

— J.R.R. Tolkien

“Like many women, she was unable to fit exactly with her husband’s view. Her feet hurt: she could not walk in the path of…

— Philippa Gregory

“Her knee caught him between the legs with pitiless accuracy, driving the wind from his chest, making him teeter for a breathless moment, then…

— Joe Abercrombie

“She pitied and despised them from the bottom of her heart, as she stood on the soft carpet, looking at the old engraving of…

— Virginia Woolf

“A vision of a breathlessly satiated Elizabeth in my bed—her tussled tresses, flushed skin—invaded my brain.”

— Christina Boyd

“Ma was heavy, but not fat; thick with child-bearing and work. She wore a loose Mother Hubbard of gray cloth in which there had…

— John Steinbeck

“When Mrs. Keane whispered, between contractions, that the baby was coming at least six weeks too soon, he shook his head and clucked his…

— Alice McDermott

“The gentle maid, whose hapless tale, these melancholy pages speak; say, gracious lady, shall she fail To draw the tear a down from thy…

— Horace Walpole

“And here is my sweet little Annamaria,’ she added, tenderly caressing a little girl of three years old, who had not made a noise…

— Jane Austen