Recasting fairy tales has become a publishing sub-genre in itself, and has been done both well and to the point of entropy. More interesting are those works where the structures of fairytales are abandoned but the world of 'fairy' is imported as a de...
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
I'd imagine my wedding as a fairy tale... huge, beautiful and white.
Once upon a time there was a great queen who, having given birth to twin daughters, invited twelve fairies who lived nearby to come and bestow gifts upon them, as was the custom in those days. Indeed, it was a very useful custom, for the power of the...
To travel is to live.
Fairy tales were stupid. And dangerous.
The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.
What Grimm fairy tale featured apiarian morphing humans?
If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns!
If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.
Seeing my parents makes me realise that life is not a fairy tale.
For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.
The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.
the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the “nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily b...
Supernatural is a dangerous and difficult word in any of its senses, looser or stricter. But to fairies it can hardly be applied, unless super is taken merely as a superlative prefix. For it is man who is, in contrast to fairies, supernatural; wherea...
The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets out to conquer this ...
The Boss: Yitzchok the Fairy. Slevin: Why do they call him "the Fairy"? The Boss: Because he's a fairy. Slevin: What, he's got wings, he flies, he sprinkles magic dust all over the place? The Boss: [annoyed] He's homosexual.
This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!
Nothing Is Important, Yet Everything Is Important
I want to be the best mum and I want everything to be perfect - I want a fairy tale really.
It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.