Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 22

• The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

  Lois Lowry

  World, Ever After, Tales

  Lois Lowry (1989). “Number the Stars”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

  Ellen Kushner

  Morning, Cutting, Winter

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• Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Mean, Said Life, Years

  Mark Twain (2014). “Mark Twain’s Letters & Speeches (Annotated Edition)”, p.898, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness...Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life.

  Jacob Burckhardt

  Life, Change, Happiness

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• Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor.

  Albert Einstein

  Men, Gold, He Man

  Albert Einstein (2002). “Dear Professor Einstein: Albert Einstein's letters to and from children”

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• The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wise, Silly, Princess

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• Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed.

  Frederick Buechner

  Dream, Powerful, Book

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• American cinema is international like the fairy tales were international.

  Bertrand Tavernier

  Cinema, Tales, International

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• Evil isn't beautiful on its own. You know?' 'Well, good people are sometimes ugly-' Blanche said at last. 'I don't know about that. Not really,' Bear shook his head. 'If the good's there, and you look for it, you'll see it in some way.' 'I think Bear is right,' Rose said decidedly. 'Fairy tales teach you that. No one who's really good ever stays ugly. It's always a disguise.

  Regina Doman

  Beautiful, Thinking, People

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• There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

  Mira Grant

  Home, Glasses, Balls

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• In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life, the pricesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Real, Princess

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Feb 12, 2017

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• And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Yeah, When Someone Dies

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28)”, p.87, Random House

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• Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.

  Jane Yolen

  Queens, Happy Endings, Tales

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• I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis.

  C. S. Lewis

  Girl, Book, Reading

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “The Chronicles of Narnia Complete 7-Book Collection with Bonus Book: Boxen”, p.106, Harper Collins

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• They stood brow to brow, brown to white, black to black, he supporting her elbows, she playing her limp light fingers over his collarbone, and how he "ladored,"he said, the dark aroma of her hair blending with crushed lily stalks, Turkish cigarettes and the lassitude that comes from "lass." "No, no, don't," she said, I must wash, quick-quick, Ada must wash; but for yet another immortal moment they stood embraced in the hushed avenue, enjoying as they had never enjoyed before, the "happy-forever" feeling at the end of never-ending fairy tales.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Dark, Light, Hair

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• Uncertainty in the pressure of vivid hopes and fears is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales.

  Bertrand Russell

  Support, Comforting, Wish

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• You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I’d given up on. Thank you for proving to me it’s not just a fairy tale.

  Simone Elkeles

  Believe, Impossible, Given

  Simone Elkeles (2012). “Chain Reaction”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

  Hilary Duff

  Soulmate, Real, People

  Hilary Duff (2012). “Devoted: An Elixir Novel”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her well‐shaped tuffet—all forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the make‐believe.

  Rob Thurman

  Giving Up, Believe, Kids

  Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.10, Penguin

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• Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stars, Tales, Curtains

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.147, Random House

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• If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of these fairy-tale characters are missing common sense.

  Chris Colfer

  Couple, Moving, Kids

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• Fairy tales dont tell you that dragons are real, but that they can be defeated!

  Kate DiCamillo

  Real, Dragons, Defeated

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• For instance, dragons are deeply revered by the Chinese. According to legend they have megapowers that include weather control and life creation. And they’re seen as kind, benevolent creatures. Funny. Every fairy tale I’d ever heard involving dragons starred daring knights trotting off to kill said dragons. Probably the real reason every time East meets West they get pissed off and throw tea in our faces.

  Jennifer Rardin

  Real, Knights, Dragons

  Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Another One Bites The Dust: Book two in the Jaz Parks sequence”, p.33, Hachette UK

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• In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies.

  Brian Froud

  Real, College, Possibility

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• It's like what you might call Goldilocks' dilemma in the old fairy tale. Young men see women as "less than" or "better than," but never their equals. And studies indicate that equality is the best foundation for a healthy relationship.

  Michael Kimmel

  Men, Healthy, Might

  "How hookups and hang-ups delay manhood". TODAYshow.com Interview, www.today.com. August 03, 2010.

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