Fairy Quotes - Page 14

• She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Valentine, Hands, Mouths

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.141, eBookIt.com

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• Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Fairy Stories, Trying, Way

  Sonya Hartnett (2011). “The Ghost's Child”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Why are so many of us enspelled by myths and folk stories in this modern age? Why do we continue to tell the same old tales, over and over again? I think it's because these stories are not just fantasy. They're about real life. We've all encountered wicked wolves, found fairy godmothers, and faced trial by fire. We've all set off into unknown woods at one point in life or another. We've all had to learn to tell friend from foe and to be kind to crones by the side of the road. . . .

  Terri Windling

  Real, Thinking, Fire

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• And anyway, the truth isn't all that great. I mean, what's the truth? Planes falling out of the sky. Buses blowing up and ripping little kids into millions of pieces. Twelve-year-olds raping people and then shooting them in the head so they can't tell. I can't watch the news anymore or look at the papers. It's like whoever sits up there in Heaven has this big bag of really crappy stuff, and once or twice a day she or he reaches in and sprinkles a little bit of it over the world and makes everything crazy, like fairy dust that's past its expiration date.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Crazy, Fall, Mean

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• Being a lifetime wife and mother has afforded me the luxury of having multiple careers: I've been a teacher. A chauffeur. A chef. An interior decorator. A landscape architect, as well as a gardener. I’ve been a painter. A personal shopper. An accountant and a banker. I’ve been a beautician. Santa Claus. The Tooth Fairy. A movie reviewer. A nurse. A psychologist. A negotiator. An I have a Ph. D in How to Pretend Like You Don’t Mind.

  Terry McMillan

  Mother, Teacher, Careers

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• Don’t worry, though, because Prince Hubert is very handsome and kind. That’s all you wanted in a boyfriend, wasn’t it?” “No,” I said. She raised an eyebrow. “It must be. If you had admired any other qualities you would have developed them in yourself, wouldn’t you?” Which was really too much. I put my hands on my hips. “Aren’t fairy godmothers supposed to be nice and make you feel better about yourself?” She rolled her eyes. “No, you’re confusing fairy god- mothers with sales clerks.

  Janette Rallison

  Mother, Nice, Eye

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.88, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars… When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stars, Hands, People

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• You’re just jealous of me because I’m a tap-dancing ballerina fairy princess veterinarian!

  Daniel Handler

  Princess, Jealous, Dancing

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• This is a fairy tale with teeth and claws.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Teeth, Fairy Tale, Tales

  Ilsa J. Bick (2012). “Drowning Instinct”, p.309, Carolrhoda Lab ™

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• Fairy's side note: Even people who don't believe in magic really do.

  Janette Rallison

  Believe, People, Magic

  Janette Rallison (2010). “My Fair Godmother”, p.10, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Once upon a time, there was a prostitute called Maria. Wait a minute. "Once upon a time" is how all the best children's stories begin, and "prostitute" is a word for adults. How can I start a book with this apparent contradiction? But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss, let's keep that beginning.

  Paulo Coelho

  Children, Book, Feet

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• She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.

  Julianna Baggott

  Real, Lying, Giving

  Julianna Baggott (2012). “Pure”, p.74, Hachette UK

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• The key to happiness - as any good fairy godmother will tell you - is not to avoid problems, but to overcome them.

  Janette Rallison

  Keys, Godmother, Overcoming

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• And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Secret, Alex

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.

  Deb Caletti

  Book, Thinking, Everyday

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• I so seldom had to dispose of a human body myself, I was at a loss. Fairies turned into dust, and vampires flaked away. Demons had to be burned. Humans were very troublesome.

  Charlaine Harris

  Loss, Dust, Vampire

  Charlaine Harris (2012). “Deadlocked: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.149, Penguin

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• It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Elements, Fairy Tale

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “M Is for Magic”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• ...This is the only way. I will not allow humans or fairies to die when I might have prevented it.” Butler would not give up. “Listen to yourself. You sound like a... like a good guy! There’s nothing in this for you.

  Eoin Colfer

  Giving Up, Guy, Might

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• A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders...and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass table salvaged from the Park View Pharmacy--writing this, an impossibility, a summary of who you came to be where you are now, and where, God knows, is that?

  Cynthia Ozick

  Cousin, Uncles, Book

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• It's like whoever sits up ther in Heaven had this big bag of really crappy stuff, and once or twice a day she or he reaches in and sprinkles a little bit of it over the world and it makes everything go crazy, like fairy dust that's past its expiration date.

  Michael Thomas Ford

  Crazy, Past, Dust

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• If I'm away from you for more than an hour, I can't stop thinking about you. I carry you in my spirit. I pray for you more than I pray for myself...I know you don't believe in fairy tales. But, if you did, I'd want to be your knight in shining armor. You've been through so much. I don't want to see you hurt anymore. Now I may not be able to give you all that your used to. But I do know I can love you past your pain. I don't want you to worry about anything. You just wake up in the morning, that's all you have to do and I'll take it from there...There's one condition...You have to be my wife

  Tyler Perry

  Hurt, Morning, Pain

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• SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. She has more hair than she needs; In the sun ’tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. She loves me all that she can, And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Valentine, Men, Hands

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2011). “Renascence and Other Poems”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Yesterday, Today, Facts

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• All I'd have to do then was roll with the consequences of inviting dewinged, fanged fairies into Trent's backyard. God, they were savage looking. Served him right.

  Kim Harrison

  Savages, Backyards, Inviting

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• My dad was a fairy," said Zach. "And by that I don't mean he dressed well and enjoyed musical theatre.

  Ben Aaronovitch

  Dad, Mean, Musical

  Ben Aaronovitch (2012). “Whispers Under Ground”, p.102, Del Rey

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