Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
No fairy tale, this. This was by no stretch of the imagination a polished fantasy. This was a searing, living force, rough around the edges, unfamiliar and bittersweet. And precious.
I was raised on the brothers Grimm, but my favorite fairy tales in the world are Oscar Wilde's - 'The Nightingale and the Rose,' 'The Selfish Giant.' The latter is probably my all-time favorite.
I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths.
I always felt and still feel that fairy tales have an emotional truth that is so deep that there are few things that really rival them.
Max Baer: It's no joke, pal. People die in fairy tales all the time.
Well the wedding in the words of the Archbishop of Canterbury was a fairy tale and there was a huge public impress, investment of goodwill, affection and indeed money in this Institution. It was a huge success at the time.
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.
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.
A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar
Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.
they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...
Great novels are above all great fairy tales . . . literature does not tell the truth but makes it up.
Until the lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
The man who comes with a tale about others has himself an ax to grind.
The tales of pure terror, of course, are completely naturalistic in their content, and must stand or fall by their merit alone. But what about the supernatural stories? Can we, the children of a scientific age, give any credence to these medleys of d...
It was her favorite story, that she remembers, but she would be hard-pressed to retell it now, faithfully, as it had been told to her. All she could recall were frayed, sleep-watered images of a forgotten castle in the middle of a wild forest, stone ...
Our souls yearn for connection with all souls. There are people we think we prefer and others we don’t, but half the time that’s a lie: We tell ourselves the fairy tale of our hatreds out of fear, but we revisit that tale as it suits us. Deep dow...
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...
Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter.
