A-villainous-ever-after Quote by Kristina Stangl

Novels are to love as fairy tales to dreams.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“When you love someone, you are not just writing a chapter in her story; you are co-authoring an eternal epic!”

— Anonymous

“Well, this is a story about books.” “About books?” “About accursed books, about the man who wrote them, about a character who broke out…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Why is that fairy-tales always treat marriage as an ending? And always such a perfectly happy one?”

— Salman Rushdie

“Being the reader of a dark fairy tale is much like being the hero of one. Our lives are filled with pain, boredom, and…

— Adam Gidwitz

All those "and they lived happily ever after" fairy tale endings need to be changed to "and they began the very hard work of…

— Linda Miles

“After finishing a good book, it was sometimes days before she could shake off that other reality; the one she'd dipped into, leaving the…

— Ann Sutherland

“I mean, without the antagonist, there would be no story! It’d be like: ‘Once upon a time there was a girl who wanted to…

— Shannon Hale

“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful…

— Ada Calhoun

“She adored fairy tales, yet derived great reward rewriting them to the melody of her own warrior soul. Her fairytales weren’t made of desperate…

— Melody Lee

“The story can be great but the characters make the book”

— R.P. Heinz

“The fairy tale is not the conclusion, but the doorway to a more brilliant reality. Pushed onto a pedestal as the final answer their…

— Natalie Nyquist