Quotes of: Tale Keyword

Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

North to the Orient

The creative members of an orthodoxy, any orthodoxy, ultimately outgrow their disciplines.

Love's Executioner and Other Tales of Psychotherapy

You won't find the tales I bear in any books . . . My tales are from the Moon Realm.” —Ebb Autumn

The Moon Coin

As the Promethean fire which banished Darkness, so Knowledge bears the Power and the Light.

The Strangely Beautiful Tale of Miss Percy Parker

We were soldiers, but even before we were showed how to kill our enemies, they taught us how to kill ourselves.

A Tale for the Time Being

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

A Tale of Two Cities

Por menos valor que tenha a vida quando é desperdiçada, vale, contudo, a pena defendê-la. Se assim não fosse, não custaria abandoná-la.

A Tale of Two Cities

Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.

The Tale of Despereaux

There ain't no point in making soup unless others eat it. Soup needs another mouth to taste it, another heart to be warmed by it.

The Tale of Despereaux

she was polite, charming, and damn pretty. Braith wanted to hate her, but she just couldn’t. The bitch.

A Tale Of Two Dragons

Should she slam his head into the bar or toss her beer on him? Damn shame to waste good beer.

A Tale of Two Djinns

Despereaux was reading the story out loud to himself. He was reading from the beginning so that he could get to the end...

The Tale of Despereaux

Ceaseless as the interminable voices of the bell-cricket, all night till dawn my tears flow.

The Tale of Genji

No art or learning is to be pursued halfheartedly...and any art worth learning will certainly reward more or less generously the effort made to study it.

The Tale of Genji

My point is that when you fall in love it's with a real person with flaws. Not with a perfect character from a fairy tale.

Tris & Izzie

...but it wouldn't be happily ever after without a kiss.

The Ravenous Gown: And 14 More Tales about Real Beauty

Ah, but when one predator leaves, another inevitably will take its place. A void never remains a void for long.

A Tale of Two Squirrels

This wine is grand. This poison is grand. It is fine to have good wine to drink, and good poison to kill with, is it not? ("The Wondersmith")

Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror

It was such a heavenly dream: dreamed between the reality of war and the reality of hereditary madness.

The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension

There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it

The Undying Monster: A Tale of the Fifth Dimension

But life wasn't a fairy tale, and I had no problem doing what was necessary to get what I wanted, even if it meant playing dirty.

Vengeance