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• Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.

  Sylvia Plath

  Self Questioning, Hurtful, Together

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.555, Anchor

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• In the fairy tale, an incomprehensible happiness rests upon an incomprehensible condition. A box is opened and all evils fly out. A word is forgotten and cities perish. A lamp is lit and love flies away. An apple is eaten and the hope of God is gone.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Apples, Cities, Evil

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• At the end of the day faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don't really expect it. Its like one day you realize that the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And its not so important happy ever after, just that its happy right now. See once in a while, once in a blue moon, people will surprise you , and once in a while people may even take your breath away.

  Zane Grey

  Moon, Blue, Funny Things

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• Beginning with Santa in infancy, and ending with the Tooth Fairy as the child acquires adult teeth. Or, plainly put, beginning with all the possibility of childhood, and ending with an absolute trust in the national currency.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Childhood, Adults

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Rant: The Oral History of Buster Casey”, p.62, Random House

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• Tell me the story, Pew. . . . It was a woman. You always say that. There's always a woman somewhere, child; a princess, a witch, a stepmother, a mermaid, a fairy godmother, or one as wicked as she is beautiful, or as beautiful as she is good. Is that the complete list? Then there is the woman you love. Who's she? That's another story.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Beauty, Beautiful, Children

  Jeanette Winterson (2006). “Lighthousekeeping”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The supreme adventure is being born. There we do walk suddenly into a splendid and startling trap... When we step into the family, by the act of being born, we do step into a world which is incalculable, into a world which has its own strange laws, into a world which could do without us, into a world we have not made. In other words, when we step into the family we step into a fairy-tale.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Adventure, Law, Steps

  "Heretics". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Chapter XIV: "On Certain Modern Writers and the Institution of the Family", 1905.

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• Of course you don't believe in fairies. You're fifteen. You think I believed in fairies at fifteen? Took me until I was at least a hundred and forty. Hundred and fifty, maybe. Anyway, he wasn't a fairy. He was a librarian. All right?

  Neil Gaiman

  Believe, Thinking, Fifteen

  "Fables & Reflections (The Sandman, Book 6)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August – October 1991, June – August 1992, June 1993.

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• The Fairy's dress rustled as she turned. Human women dressed like flowers, layers of petals around a mortal, rotting core.

  Cornelia Funke

  Flower, Dresses, Rotting

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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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• Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Hope, Children, Dragons

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• He used to talk to me about Russia all the time and had sworn up and down that I'd love it here. "To you, it'd be like a fairy tale," he'd told me. "Sorry, comrade. Borg and out-of-date music aren't part of any happy ending I've ever imagined." "Borscht, not borg. And I've seen your appetite. If you were hungry enough, you'd eat it." "So starvation's necessary for this fairy tale to work out?

  Richelle Mead

  Sorry, Russia, Work Out

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• Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.

  Richelle Mead

  Believe, Waste, Fairy Tale

  Richelle Mead (2009). “Blood Promise: A Vampire Academy Novel”, p.264, Penguin

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• But a hare, now, that is a different thing altogether. A hare is not a pet but a person. Hares are clever and brave and loving, and they have fairy blood in them. It’s a grand thing to have a hare for a friend.

  Elizabeth Goudge

  Clever, Blood, Brave

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• Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.

  Amanda Hocking

  Fairy Tale, Yeah, Tales

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• Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

  Adam Gidwitz

  Once Upon A Time, Fairy Tale, Tales

  Adam Gidwitz (2010). “A Tale Dark and Grimm”, p.8, Penguin

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• Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

  Kate Morton

  Mother, Children, Stories

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• Love in the real world doesn’t usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don’t always get fairy-tale endings. People split up and move on. Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you can’t love someone else.” - Georgina to Brandy

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Moving, Mean

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.78, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Children, Real, Sleep

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.137, Xist Publishing

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• Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Believe, Teeth

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• That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Growing Up, Real, Thinking

  "The Choice". Book by Nicholas Sparks, September 24, 2007.

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• Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Light, Long, Understanding

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “The Birds And Other Stories”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s not just being outside when they’re all inside. I used to be inside. I think there’s a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they’re happening which isn’t normal.

  Jo Walton

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.169, Macmillan

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• That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Falling In Love, Love You, Kids

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.86, Bantam

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• Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

  Gena Showalter

  Romance, Fairy Tale, Online

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.160, HQN Books

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• How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and adorable?" "Just like you." "With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes" "Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.

  Shannon Hale

  Nurse, Adorable, Trying

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