A tale never loses in the telling.
Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.
Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as...
In fairy tales the evil characters disappear or die, in reality, evil spreads while you wait for your hero on a horse, only to realise the sword to save yourself was always in your hand...
Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.
The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they filled forty–one volumes of a massive publication called the . Charles Perrault is the French fairy tale writer w...
...purification was the point of such pain.
I marched to the head Elf. “Where’s the frog?
Books, the children of the brain.
My fairy-tale life ended the moment I wanted to apply for a passport.
Drugs are not the way to the light. They won't lead to a fairy-tale life, they lead to suffering.
A tale is soon told; a deed is not soon done.
Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale?
'Extraordinary' is an original fairy tale, a contemporary story. But like a traditional fairy tale, it heads quickly into frightening, bloody territory. I am afraid for my book, as it goes out alone into the world, just as I was frightened for Phoebe...
When a fairy tale ends a new one starts. Close your eyes and say ‘once upon a time’ with me; who knows we may catch the beginning of a fairy tale which will bless us with a happy ending.” By T. Afsin Ilgar - Ted`s Tale
Why should a horror film be just a horror film? To me, The Company of Wolves is a fairy tale; it's got all those elements plus a lot more. And we know that fairy tales aren't innocent any more.
Your transformation will be the miracle.
To hurt is as human as to breathe.
Autumn is no time to lie alone
I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come.
Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.