Differences Quote by Kate Morton

“Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.”

— Kate Morton

The biggest difference for me is that the tales really have no logical outlet, no particular infrastructure in which to present them as you…

— Larry Fessenden

The problem with fairy tales is that they set a girl up for disappointment. In real life, the Prince goes off with the wrong…

— Aashi

“Some women have kissed—and some are kissing—a lot of frogs, even though the very first man that they have each kissed was and is…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy…

— Anonymous

Fairy tales were important to me. Aren't they for any kid? My sister says I spent a good five years of my youth convinced…

— Susannah Grant

“Ever since Eliza had discovered the book of fairy tales . . . had disappeared inside its faded pages, she'd understood the power of…

— Kate Morton

“Even when they were very small Eliza had known that Sammy needed her more than she needed him, even before he caught the fever…

— Kate Morton

“Apart from such visits, for the first time in her life Eliza was truly alone. In the beginning, unfamiliar sounds, nocturnal sounds, disturbed her,…

— Kate Morton

“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

“It was ending too soon, the way everything did, everything except Ebola viruses and really bad people like psychopaths. Those things never ended.”

— Lev Grossman

“Another day ending and another would soon begin. What would tomorrow bring?”

— Lori Brighton