Quotes of: Fairies Keyword

The world of religion isn't a logical world; that's why children like it. It's a world of worked-out fantasies, very similar to children's stories or fairy tales.

Yehuda Amichai

My first marriage was very traditional, in the church, and then we left the church and went to the reception hall. So this time, I'd like to go fairy tale all the way.

NeNe Leakes

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar

Angela Carter

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

Amanda Eliasch

Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.

Vladimir Nabokov

Oh, you mean fairy gossip, Eric,” she giggled. “I get the picture,” she said fluttering her lacy wings. “Don’t look so sad, Eric. There isn’t a day that passes when your nosy beak doesn’t find its way into someone’s business. I’m su...

The Adventures of Eric Seagull 'Story-Teller': Book 2 a Fairy's Wish

Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge from the trial. The reason we keep telling fairy tal...

Catherynne M. Valente

As Mr. R. U. Sayee has well said: 'It should be clear a priori that fairy lore must have developed as a result of modifications and accretions received in different countries and at many periods, though we must not overlook the part played by traditi...

British Fairy Origins

That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

The Darkest Night

Few humans see fairies or hear their music, but many find fairy rings of dark grass, scattered with toadstools, left by their dancing feet.

Fantasy Encyclopedia

Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

The Forgotten Garden

Once the blinders are off, it's rather hard to go back to seeing things the way you used to.

The Fairy Godmother

I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.

Fables, Vol. 14: Witches

At least that left hope for him. Except "Beauty and the Geek" wasn’t exactly the proper translation of the popular fairy tale.

Give Up the Ghost

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you're made to believe the spell can never be broken.

Heart's Blood

Berg, while the go-to guy for decisions for past campaigns, engaged in frequent and successful battles against sobriety.

Brede: An erotic fairy tale

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be.

Box of Hair: A Fairy Tale

Nobody knew exactly how the zombification process worked, and there were as many different strains as theories.

Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella

In you, she saw hope.”“You mean she saw his next meal.

Hans & Greta: a Twisted Fairy Tale Novella

Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

The Invention of Hugo Cabret

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

The Ice Queen