Fairy Quotes - Page 16

• Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.

  Laini Taylor

  Belief, Fairy Tale, Language

  Laini Taylor (2009). “Lips Touch: Three Times”, p.226, Scholastic Inc.

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• It's all a quilt of fairy tales with a patch here and there of truth.

  Laini Taylor

  Quilts, Here And There, Fairy Tale

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• There may be fairies, there may be elves, but God helps those who help themselves.

  Stephen King

  May, Helping, God Helps Those Who Help Themselves

  Stephen King (2016). “Misery”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• September knew a number of curse words, most of which she heard the girls at school saying in the bathrooms, in hushed voices, as if the words could make things happen just by being spoken, as if they were fairy words, and had to be handled just so.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Girl, School, Voice

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.325, Macmillan

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• How many times have you said, 'This is it. I've finally found my one true love'? And how many times has the reality turned out differently? Paperback romances and fairy tales promote an ideal of a first and only love, but few of us can claim to have had such uncomplicated good fortune. For most people, the process of finding the perfect partner is one trial and error: breakups, makeups, missed opportunities and misunderstandings. Human love is a fragile creation, and sometimes the smallest thing - the wrong choice of words or a single clumsy gesture - can make love shatter, stall or fade away.

  Haruki Murakami

  Breakup, Reality, Love Is

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• The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

  Marina Warner

  Odds, Teeth, Fairy Tale

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• Actually, the zapping light was kinda like Sookie’s fairy-light-thing. Do you think there’s any chance I’m a fairy?” “No, Z. Focus. True Blood is fiction. This is the real world.

  P. C. Cast

  Real, Thinking, Light

  P. C. Cast, Kristin Cast (2012). “Hidden”, p.93, Macmillan

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• Have you been sniffing fairy farts?

  Kim Harrison

  Fart, Sniffing

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• We no longer believe in fairy tales. But we will learn to believe in monsters

  Francesca Lia Block

  Believe, Monsters, Fairy Tale

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• Every time you say you don't believe in fairies, a fairy dies.

  James M. Barrie

  Believe, Don't Believe, Dies

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• I watch with envious eyes and mind, the single-souled who dare not feel The wind that blows beyond the moon, who do not hear the fairy reel

  Neil Gaiman

  Eye, Blow, Moon

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Fragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders”, p.28, Harper Collins

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• Since there are thousands of fairy tales, one may safely guess that there are probably equal numbers where the courage and determination of females rescue males, and vice versa.

  Bruno Bettelheim

  Determination, Numbers, Female

  Bruno Bettelheim (1976). “The uses of enchantment: the meaning and importance of fairy tales”, Knopf

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• Our tree became the talking tree of the fairy tale; legends and stories nestled like birds in its branches.

  Willa Cather

  Talking, Bird, Tree

  Willa Cather (2016). “My çntonia”, p.53, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• After a time he fell asleep, and some unsteady fairies had to climb over him on their way home from an orgy.

  James M. Barrie

  Home, Way, Climbs

  James M. Barrie (2013). “Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) (Annotated Edition)”, p.72, Jazzybee Verlag

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• She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?

  Cornelia Funke

  Dream, Dust, Gold

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• I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lying, Book, Nurse

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

  Stephen King

  Beautiful, Evil, Enchantment

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.103, Anchor

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• I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.

  Isak Dinesen

  Country, Writing, Self

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• Every constellation’s like its own fairy tale.

  Lauren Miller

  Fairy Tale, Tales, Constellations

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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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• I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.

  Julie Kagawa

  Real, Fairy Tale, Happy Endings

  Julie Kagawa (2011). “The Iron Queen”, p.41, Harlequin

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• Wherever they may have come from, and wherever they may have gone,
  unicorns live inside the true believer's heart.
  Which means as long as we can dream, there will be unicorns.

  Bruce Coville

  Dream, Heart, Mean

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• We have had drought where I live in New Mexico for several years, and I began to think about rain and green plants and growing. Fairies naturally came to mind when I imagined walking in green places. They are workers for the growth principle.

  Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

  Rain, Thinking, Green Plants

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• Next time I go to a movie and see a picture of a little ordinary girl become a great star… I’ll believe it. And whenever I hear my wife read fairy tales to my little boy, I’ll listen. I know now that dreams do come true.

  Jackie Robinson

  Girl, Dream, Stars

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• Spirit and soul is horseshit of the worst sort. Obviously there are no fairies, no Santa Clauses, no spirits. What there is, is human goals and purposes as noted by sane existentialists. But a lot of transcendentalists are utter screwballs.

  Albert Ellis

  Goal, Soul, Purpose

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