Once Upon A Time Quotes - Page 5

• Just so you know, when they say "once upon a time"....they're lying. It's not once upon a time. Its not even twice upon a time. It's hundreds of times, over and over, every time someone opens up the pages of this dusty old book.

  Jodi Picoult

  Lying, Book, Pages

  Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer (2013). “Between the Lines”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time there was a boy who lived in a house across the field from a girl who no longer exists. They made up a thousand games. She was Queen and he was King. In the autumn light, her hair shone like a crown. They collected the world in small handfuls. When the sky grew dark they parted with leaves in their hair.

  Nicole Krauss

  Girl, Kings, Queens

  "The History of Love". Book by Nicole Krauss (p.9), 2005.

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• Once upon a time there was a girl." "Not a princess?!" "No, definitely not! She was too smart to be a princess. Tough too...Stronger than anyone realized." "Does she live happily ever after?" "Shouldn't there be something in the middle?" "I like to read the ending first." (Wicked Lovely)

  Melissa Marr

  Girl, Smart, Princess

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• You picked that out?” Caine asked. “That pink, plastic toy?” I turned to look at him. “I happen to have been a little girl, once upon a time, detective. I know what they like. Every little girl wants to be a princess.” A thoughtful frown overcame the angry tension on Caine’s rugged face. “And what happens when they grow up?” I thought of my mother and sisters and all the horrors that had happened the day they’d died. A bitter laugh escaped from my tight lips. “Then they just want to be little girls again.

  Jennifer Estep

  Girl, Mother, Growing Up

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• Once upon a time fairy tales were told to audiences of young and old alike. It is only in the last century that such tales were deemed fit only for small children, stripped of much of their original complexity, sensuality, and power to frighten and delight.

  Terri Windling

  Children, Delight, Lasts

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• Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

  Laini Taylor

  Girl, Angel, Monsters

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.92, Hachette UK

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• Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

  John Connolly

  Mother, Boys, Stories

  John Connolly (2008). “The Book of Lost Things Illustrated Edition”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Once upon a time, they say, there was a girl...there was a boy...there was a person who was in trouble. And this is what she did...and what he did...and how they learned to survive it. This is what they did...and why one failed...and why another triumphed in the end. And I know that it's true, because I danced at their wedding and drank their very best wine.

  Terri Windling

  Girl, Wine, Boys

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• The truth is, I don't have a real clue what love is - how to find it, how to give it. Once upon a time I thought I knew.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Real, Love Is, Giving

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• You’re lost in your own world, in the things that happen there, and you’ve locked all the doors. Sometimes I look at you sleeping. I wake up and look at you and I feel closer to you when you’re like that, unguarded, than when you’re awake. When you’re awake you’re like someone with her eyes closed, watching a movie on the inside of your eyelids. I can’t reach you anymore. Once upon a time I could, but not now, and not for a long time.

  Nicole Krauss

  Sleep, Eye, Doors

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• Once upon a time' These are the most magical words our world has ever known and the gateway to the greatest stories ever told. They're an immediate calling to anyone who hears them-a calling into a world where everyone is welcome and anything can happen. Mice can become men, maids can become princesses, and they can teach valuable lessons in the process.

  Chris Colfer

  Princess, Men, Our World

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• Once upon a time there was a dwarf knight who only had fifty words to live in and they were so fleeting that he only had time to put on a suit of armor and ride swiftly on a black horse into a very well-lit woods where he vanished forever.

  Richard Brautigan

  Horse, Dwarves, Knights

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• Once upon a time, there were two moons, who were sisters. Nitid was the goddess of tears and life, and the sky was hers. No one worshipped Ellai but secret lovers.

  Laini Taylor

  Moon, Sky, Two

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• It’s hard for everyone isn’t it? Anyone who says it’s easy is a liar. There’s this huge divide between me and Alex right now because I feel like we’re living in such different worlds, I don’t know what to talk about with him anymore. And we used to be able to talk all night. He phones once a week and I listen to what he’s been up to during the week and try to bite my tongue every time I go into another Katie story. Truth is I have nothing other to talk about but her and I know it bores people. I think I used to be interesting once upon a time.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Liars, Thinking, Night

  Cecelia Ahern (2005). “Rosie Dunne”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.

  Margaret Atwood

  Novelists, Century, Form

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• Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

  Gertrude Stein

  Baltimore

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.479, Northwestern University Press

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• People think that children don't know anything. It's enough to make you wonder if grownups were ever children once upon a time.

  Muriel Barbery

  Children, Thinking, People

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• Once upon a time there were two sisters. One of them was really, really strong, and one of them wasn't.' You looked at me. 'Your turn.' I rolled my eyes. 'The strong sister went outside into the rain and realized the reason she was strong was because she was made out of iron, but it was raining and she rusted. The end.' No, because the sister who wasn't strong went outside into the rain when it was raining, and hugged her really tight until the sun came out again.

  Jodi Picoult

  Strong, Rain, Eye

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “Handle with Care: A Novel”, p.374, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time there was a young lady who lived in a marsh, and her name was Poison.

  Chris Wooding

  Names, Poison, Young

  Chris Wooding (2014). “Poison”, p.206, Scholastic UK

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• Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother, but the rest of the time there was none. This story is about one of those other times.

  Diane Setterfield

  Godmother, Stories, Fairy

  Diane Setterfield (2007). “The Thirteenth Tale”, p.492, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time, Sleeping Beauty decided to take a nap from which she would never wake up.

  Rachel Cohn

  Sleep, Naps, Wake Up

  Rachel Cohn (2011). “You Know Where to Find Me”, p.17, Simon and Schuster

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• Once upon a time wasn't as long ago as it used to be.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Long Ago, Used, Long

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• If it happens that the human race doesn't make it, then the fact that we were here once will not be altered, that once upon a time we peopled this astonishing blue planet, and wondered intelligently at everything about it and the other things who lived here with us on it, and that we celebrated the beauty of it in music and art, architecture, literature, and dance, and that there were times when we approached something godlike in our abilities and aspirations. We emerged out of depthless mystery, and back into mystery we returned,and in the end the mystery is all there is.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Art, Race, Blue

  James Howard Kunstler (2007). “The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Cent”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Once upon a time there was what there was, and if nothing had happened there would be nothing to tell.

  Charles de Lint

  Would Be, Happened, Ifs

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• It was anyway all a long time ago; the world, we know now, is as it is and not different; if there was ever a time when there were passages, doors, the borders open and many crossing, that time is not now. The world is older than it was. Even the weather isn’t as we remember it clearly once being; never lately does there come a summer day such as we remember, never clouds as white as that, never grass as odorous or shade as deep and full of promise as we remember they can be, as once upon a time they were.

  John Crowley

  Summer, Weather, White

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