Fairy Quotes - Page 9

• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the second world war.

  A. S. Byatt

  War, Dark, World

  "Happy ever after" by A. S. Byatt, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• I can't just only be on reality TV and show everything when it's the fairy princess, fairytale, and then not take my hits when I have to.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Princess, Reality, Fairytale

  "Bethenny Frankel Talks Jason Hoppy Divorce On ‘Ellen’: ‘I Feel Like A Failure’". www.huffingtonpost.com. January 9, 2013.

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• Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Girl, Fairy Tale, Ends

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• Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

  Thomas Paine

  Inspirational, Motivation, Character

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• I'm not a big fan of kids' movies that have this knowing snarkiness to them or this post-modern take on storytelling. I think that sails right over the heads of most kids. There's something to be said for a well-told fairy tale. There's a reason that these mythic stories stay with us.

  John C. Reilly

  Kids, Thinking, Knowing

  "John C. Reilly Talks WRECK-IT RALPH, How He Got Involved, Rooting for the Underdog, His Reaction to Seeing the Finished Film and Doing More Voice-Overs". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 2, 2012.

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• I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Scary, Fairy Tale, Found

  www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• In fairy tales, the children are saved by caring adults. We need more caring adults in the lives of our children.

  Donna Shalala

  Children, Caring, Adults

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.

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• I have a daughter, and fairies meant a lot to her growing up.

  Michael Sheen

  Daughter, Mother, Growing Up

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

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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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• 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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• You mocking changeling- fairy-born and human-bred!

  Charlotte Bronte

  Born, Changelings, Humans

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.356, Penguin

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• The fast fliers are not disgraced." Queen Ree reached up for the missing tiara. "She saved us, but she's with him now." Vidia was complicated, two fairies in one, a loyal traitor.

  Gail Carson Levine

  Queens, Two, Missing

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• I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic fairy-story - the larger founded on the lesser in contact with the earth, the lesser drawing splendour from the vast backcloths - which I could dedicate simply to: to England; to my country. ... I would draw some of the great tales in fullness, and leave many only placed in the scheme, and sketched. The cycles should be linked to a majestic whole, and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Country, Drama, Hands

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• And yet, I felt a surge of exhilaration just thinking about that night. Not just because I'd met the prince and fallen in love and started on my course toward happiness ever after, but because I'd made something happen. I'd done something everybody had told me I couldn't. I'd changed my life all by myself. Having a fairy godmother would have ruined everything.

  Margaret Haddix

  Night, Thinking, Godmother

  Margaret Peterson Haddix (2015). “Just Ella”, p.57, Simon and Schuster

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