Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 22

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Apples, Swans

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.

  Marie Curie

  Children, Science, Thinking

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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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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• Sure, I love fairy tales.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Doubt, Atheism, Tales

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• The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

  Julie Andrews

  Angel, Thinking, Littles

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

  Bertrand Tavernier

  Cinema, Tales, International

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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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• 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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• It was love, she thought, love that never clutch its object; but, like the love which mathematicians bear their symbols, or poets their phrases, was meant to be spread over the world and become part of human gain. The world by all means should have shared it, could Mr Bankes have said why that woman pleased him so; why the sight of her reading a fairy tale to her boy had upon him precisely the same effect as the solution of a scientific problem.

  Virginia Woolf

  Reading, Mean, Boys

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Ao farol: To the lighthouse: Edição bilíngue português - inglês”, p.208, Editora Landmark LTDA

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• With their hands clasped like children in a fairy tale, she fell asleep beside him in the dark.

  Cassandra Clare

  Children, Dark, Hands

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1188, Simon and Schuster

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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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• I realized that searching for a mentor has become the professional equivalent of waiting for Prince Charming. We all grew up on the fairy tale "Seeping Beauty," which instructs young women that if they just wait for their prince to arrive, they will be kissed and whisked away on a white horse to live happily ever after. Now young women are told that if they can just find the right mentor, they will be pushed up the ladder and whisked away to the corner office to live happily ever after. Once again, we are teaching women to be too dependent on others.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Horse, Teaching, White

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• A criminal trial is like a cultural in-flight test in which society projects its own history, fears, impatience, insolence, clemency, insecurities, dreams and nightmares upon facts. ... What's inside is every fairy-tale monster, a brutal ogre, a bloodthirsty werewolf, an elegant vampire, a scheming devil, a bullying giant, a sneering troll, or maybe just an abusive stepfather.

  Ron Franscell

  Dream, Bullying, Insecurity

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