Quotes of: Fairy-tale Keyword

People are jackals, always willing to feed off someone else's kill.

Tortall and Other Lands: A Collection of Tales

But silence is not a natural environment for stories. They need words. Without them they grown pale, sicken and die. And then they haunt you.

The Thirteenth Tale

I've nothing against people who love truth. Apart from the fact that they make dull companions.

The Thirteenth Tale

I feel like I'm twenty again.

View From the Sixth Floor: An Oswald Tale

The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.

The Wife's Tale

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

The Winter's Tale

Justice came from a fight amid complexities, and required all the virtues in the world merely to be perceived.

Winter's Tale

Her changing perception of time had altered the sum of her reflections.

The Wife's Tale

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

Young Wives' Tales

I adopted a healthier diet. I take at least a tablespoon of apple-cider vinegar a day. It's an old wives' tale, but it really is one of the best things you can put in your mouth.

Melissa Etheridge

In , Anthony Barcellos mines rich family history to create a full-blooded tale that readers will find insightful, rewarding, and entertaining.

John Lescroart

People talk about places like Mumbai as a tale of two cities, as if the rich and poor don't have anything to do with each other.

Katherine Boo

After an 18-year career, I left the film industry, not wanting to become one of those child-actor cautionary tales.

Lisa Jakub

those lines on her forehead with a lovely eyes can tale you how much she was a fighter and later on a dreamer for her.

lity munshi

I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.

Margaret Haddix

The Greatest” is a bite-your-tongue-book. Ultimately a tragic tale it is also immensely uplifting and easily the best footballer biography I have ever read.

Mike Parry

Things need not have happened to be true. Tales and adventures are the shadow truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes and forgotten.

Neil Gaiman

The idea that an author can extricate her or his own ongoing life experience from the tale being written is a conceit of very little worth.

Steven Erikson

While we are being fascinated by the tales of famous serial killers and how they were brought to justice, the real serial killer goes about his business with hardly a thought to being caught.

Pat Brown

It's a difficult undertaking. I've been married for four years and I see this movie as a cautionary tale about people who've gone deeply out of communication.

Mark Ruffalo

Once you fall for someone, their smell can be a powerful thing. Women will wear their boyfriends' T-shirts, and throughout tales in history men have held on to their lover's handkerchief.

Helen Fisher