Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 5

• Fairy tales only happen in movies." -George Melies from The Invention of Hugo Cabret

  Brian Selznick

  Invention, Tales, 1930s

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• The narrative of so many fairy tales are timeless in so many different cultures, and they have been since the dawn of man. They represent escapism, but they all feature themes that have such poignancy in a modern world.

  Lily Cole

  Men, Dawn, Different

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The fact that fairy tales remain a literary underdog - undervalued and undermined - even as they shape so many popular stories, redoubles my certainty that it is time for contemporary fairy tales to be celebrated in a popular, literary collection. Fairy tales hold the secret to reading.

  Kate Bernheimer

  Reading, Secret, Underdog

  "My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me". Anthology, September 28, 2010.

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• From sentence to sentence, in fairy tales there is no reality that is subordinated to any other. Just as, outside the pages there is no reality.

  Kate Bernheimer

  Reality, Pages, Tales

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• An Islamic writer recalls her joy in the clothes she wore as a young girl at a wedding: They were always in beautiful bright colors: crimson, pink, turquoise, purple, and embroidered with sparkling crystals, sequins and beads. ... The older girls and women would wear glamorous heavily-beaded silk blouses and long, princess-like skirts. I wanted to wear those fairy-tale clothes too. I longed even more to wear a sari which the women wore so elegantly and which flattered their curves.

  Shelina Zahra Janmohamed

  Beautiful, Girl, Fashion

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• Frosty the snowman was a jolly happy soul. With a corncob pipe and a button nose and two eyes made out of coal. Frosty the snowman is a fairy tale they say. He was made of snow but the children know how he came to life one day.

  Jack Nelson

  Christmas, Children, Eye

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• People gave names to things so they could tell stories about them, goddam fairy tales about children who got out alive.

  Sam Lipsyte

  Children, Names, People

  Sam Lipsyte (2013). “The Fun Parts: Stories”, p.51, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different lifestyle doesn't change the meaning of what I've been raised on, which is fairy tales.

  Selena Gomez

  Love Is, The End Of The Day, Different

  "Selena Gomez is a super sexy basketball player on the cover of Nelon" by Jenna Sally Rubenstein, www.mtv.com. January 18, 2013.

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• The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

  Grace Kelly

  Ideas, Fairy, Tales

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• I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that.

  Patrick Dempsey

  Dream, Thinking, Perfect

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• At the centre of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power

  Susan Wiggs

  Stories, Tales, Centre

  Susan Wiggs (2001). “The you I never knew”

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• Story of O is a fairy tale for another world, a world where some part of me lived for a long time, a world that no longer exists except between the covers of a book.

  Anne Desclos

  Book, Long, Stories

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• And you must tell the child the legends I told you - as my mother told them to me and her mother to her. You must tell the fairy tales of the old country. You must tell of those not of the earth who live forever in the hearts of the people.

  Betty Smith

  Mother, Country, Children

  BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”

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• Remember all fairy tales end at some point.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Remember, Ends, Tales

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• If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

  George MacDonald

  Circles, Humanity, Church

  George MacDonald (2015). “George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more”, p.1671, e-artnow

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• It wasn’t like in the storybooks. No witches lurked at crossroads disguised as crones, waiting to reward travelers who shared their bread. Genies didn’t burst from lamps, and talking fish didn’t bargain for their lives. In all the world, there was only one place humans could get wishes: Brimstone’s shop. And there was only one currency he accepted. It wasn’t gold, or riddles, or kindness, or any other fairy-tale nonsense, and no, it wasn’t souls, either. It was weirder than any of that. It was teeth.

  Laini Taylor

  Kindness, Talking, Waiting

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• It’s my own fault, really. For believing in fairy tales. Not that I ever mistook them for actual historical fact, or anything. But I did grow up believing that for every girl, there’s a prince out there somewhere. All she has to do is find him. Then it’s on with the happily ever after. So you can only imagine what happened when I found out. That my prince really IS one. A prince. No, I really mean it. He’s an actual PRINCE.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Growing Up, Believe

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Queen of Babble in the Big City”, p.21, Harper Collins

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• A drop of poison on that gathering snow. That moment in the fairy tale when we know what just happened but the princess doesn’t.

  Deb Caletti

  Princess, Snow, Gathering

  Deb Caletti (2012). “Stay”, p.49, Simon and Schuster

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• He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Girl, Opportunity, Knights

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.92, Random House

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• There's a rule for what makes good fantasy work, and it's as strange as any riddle ever posed in a fairy tale: In fantasy, you can do anything; and therefore, the one thing you must not do is 'just anything.' Why? Because in a story where anything can happen and anything can be true, nothing matters. You have no reason to care what happens. It's all arbitrary, and arbitrary isn't interesting.

  Teresa Nielsen Hayden

  Interesting, Arbitrary, Stories

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• Having a magical element in a realistic setting without explanation seems to me to be the hallmark of fairy tales, which present us with a kind of metaphorical look at some aspect of our lives.

  Laurie Foos

  Looks, Elements, Kind

  Source: therumpus.net

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• But why didn't you just ask me?" I set down my fork and glare at her. "Because you were sleeping," She says, taking a sip if Chardonnay. "I was taking a nap, Mom. It wasn't intended to be some kind of Disney fairy-tale hundred-year snooze.

  Alyson Noel

  Mom, Sleep, Naps

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• Give Mozart a fairy tale and he creates without effort an immortal masterpiece.

  Camille Saint-Saens

  Giving, Effort, Tales

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• Fairy-tales are nice.

  Syd Barrett

  Nice, Greatest Love, Tales

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.

  Max Luthi

  Fairytale, Realistic, Tales

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