Tales Quotes - Page 6

• The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

  Danny DeVito

  Father, Son, Wife

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• Tales From Topographic Oceans is like a woman's padded bra.

  Rick Wakeman

  Ocean, Bras

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• The idea of my life as a fairy tale is itself a fairy tale.

  Grace Kelly

  Ideas, Fairy Tale, Fairy

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• At the end of the day, love is such a normal thing, and everyone deals with it. Just because it's a different lifestyle doesn't change the meaning of what I've been raised on, which is fairy tales.

  Selena Gomez

  Love Is, The End Of The Day, Different

  "Selena Gomez is a super sexy basketball player on the cover of Nelon" by Jenna Sally Rubenstein, www.mtv.com. January 18, 2013.

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• OTHERBOUND is a web of spells and counterspells, but Corinne Duyvis never loses sight of the bodies, minds and all-too-human emotions that absorb the impact of the magical power-plays. It's an action-packed tale of passion, possession and hair-raising leaps from world to world. As you read it, remember to keep breathing.

  Margo Lanagan

  Passion, Impact, Hair

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• Kate Bernheimer's fiction offers a unique and delicate gift, the tempting mirage of a grace that constantly escapes. The Complete Tales of Merry Gold is an exceptional, lovely book, beautifully enigmatic, speaking a language that mysteriously evokes the unspoken.

  Lydia Millet

  Book, Unique, Grace

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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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• Be careful, boy. In some tales, the hero gets eaten by the monster after all .

  Julie Kagawa

  Hero, Boys, Monsters

  Julie Kagawa (2015). “Iron Fey Series Volume 2: The Iron Knight\Iron's Prophecy\The Lost Prince\The Iron Traitor”, p.117, Harlequin

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• By nature, a storyteller is a plagiarist. Everything one comes across - each incident, book, novel, life episode, story, person, news clip - is a coffee bean that will be crushed, ground up, mixed with a touch of cardamom, sometimes a tiny pinch of salt, boiled thrice with sugar, and served as a piping-hot tale.

  Rabih Alameddine

  Coffee, Book, Hot

  "The Blurb #11: A Fresh Eye" by Rabih Alameddine, therumpus.net. October 27, 2009.

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• I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my advantage, because like if you can believe in something great, I feel like you can achieve something great.

  Katy Perry

  Believe, Thinking, Way

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• There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out between lovers and enemies, strangers and friends. But all are fragile things made of just twenty-six letters arranged and re-arranged to form tales and imaginings which will dazzle your senses, haunt your imagination and move you to the very depths of your soul.

  Neil Gaiman

  Moving, Night, Strangers And Friends

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• When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be When your hero falls soley the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow Without my hero, theres only me alone, to deal with my sorrow Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all What are you expected to do, when your only hero falls

  Tupac Shakur

  Strong, Hurt, Stars

  Song: River That Flows Forever, Album: The Rose That Grew From Concrete

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• Let the fairy tale begin on a winter's morning, then, with one drop of blood newly-fallen on the ivory snow: a drop as bright as a clear-cut ruby, red as a single spot of claret on the lace cuff.

  Ellen Kushner

  Morning, Cutting, Winter

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• I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  J. K. Rowling

  What Matters, Careers, Long

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• The Snow White the midnight the moon tales of the mechanics

  Marissa Meyer

  Moon, White, Snow

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• The Land of Dreams, that mystical realm, where the oddest of visions appear, come wander through scenes of joyful peace, or stampeded through nightmares of fear. Dare we open those secret doors, down dusty paths of mind, in long-forgotten corners, what memories we'll find. Who rules o'er the Kingdom of Night, where all is not what it seems? 'Tis I, the Weaver of Tales, for I am the Dreamer of Dreams!

  Brian Jacques

  Dream, Memories, Night

  Brian Jacques (2011). “The Rogue Crew”, p.8, Penguin

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• What I often do in my work is to take a great story, such as the Odyssey, the search for the Grail, the story of Jesus, or the story of the great peacemaker who helped create the Iroquois Confederacy in the 15th century. I then use these tales as templates upon which to weave psychological and spiritual exercises which allow us to open ourselves up to the larger venue of a story.

  Jean Houston

  Spiritual, Jesus, Exercise

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

  Lois Lowry

  World, Fairy Tale, Ever After

  Lois Lowry (1989). “Number the Stars”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Real life is not quite as it is in stories. In the old tales, bad things happen, and when the tale has unfolded and come to its triumphant conclusion, it is as if the bad things had never been. Life is not as simple as that, not quite.

  Juliet Marillier

  Real, Simple, Stories

  Juliet Marillier (2010). “Daughter of the Forest: Book One of the Sevenwaters Trilogy”, p.462, Macmillan

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• I'm sure that there must have been times when you have read books or watched films and found yourself secretly wishing for the villain to win. Why? Isn't that against the rules by which our society lives? Why should you feel this way? It's simple, really; the villain is the true hero of these tales, not the well-intentioned moron who somehow foils their diabolical scheme. The villain get's all the best lines, has the best costumes, has unlimited power and wealth- why on earth would anyone not want to be the villain?

  Mark Walden

  Book, Hero, Winning

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• If you are going to live in a house made of candy, don't move next door to a couple of obese kids. A lot of these fairy-tale characters are missing common sense.

  Chris Colfer

  Couple, Moving, Kids

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• Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.

  Guy Gavriel Kay

  Night, Dragons, Rivers

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• A tale begun in other days, When summer suns were glowing - A simple chime, that served to time The rhythm of your rowing - Whose echoes live in memory yet, Though envious years would say 'forget.

  Lewis Carroll

  Summer, Memories, Simple

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• The Princess Bride S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure You had to admire a guy who called his own new book a classic before it was published and anyone had a chance to read it.

  William Goldman

  Book, Princess, Adventure

  William Goldman (2007). “The Princess Bride: S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The wise old fairy tales never were so silly as to say that the prince and the princess lived peacefully ever afterwards. The fairy tales said that the prince and princess lived happily ever afterwards; and so they did. They lived happily, although it is very likely that from time to time they threw the furniture at each other.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wise, Silly, Princess

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