Then you are doubly fortunate, to have it find you twice.” Parker smiled again, his eyes eerily piercing into mine. Parker and Danielle

Rain turned to ice,and lightning splintered, it splicedthe black sky, it seeped a bright white.All animals they fled,from the sky as it bled,pale death that fell veiling the night.

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give...

Love is a fairytale blah, blah, blah.

For most people life is not a fairy tale, it is an adventure.

It was only as part of the civilizing process that storytelling developed within the aristocratic and bourgeois homes, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries through governesses and nannies, and later in the eighteenth and the...

When a fairy tale ends a new one starts. Close your eyes and say ‘once upon a time’ with me; who knows we may catch the beginning of a fairy tale which will bless us...

Let me guess – you’re Grumpy?’He let out a humpf. ‘ And you would be too, if you’d just spent the last hour searching the forest for your wayward charge.’ He walked even faster. ‘We...

They [Fairy Tales] are talking about real emotions, telling true stories, through the medium of metaphor. People used to understand metaphor better than I think we do now. But these stories are so potent, they...

Wrath crawled out from the well,on direction from Hell,to get back what it once lost.With vengeance in mind,it set out to find,a specified soul to accost.When the Hell-well beckoned,Mother’s will now reckoned,her dead soul now...

He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he’d become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.

They kissed for the first time then in the cold spring rain, though neither one of them now knew that it was raining. Tristran’s heart pounded in his chest as if it was not big...

…One cannot help but consider the future- what will it be like when all the wild places of the earth have been taken over by civilization, and there is no more room for Indians, Pirates,...

The very name of the genre itself – fairy tale – originated during this time, for the French writers coined the term conte de fee during the seventeenth century, and it has stuck to the...

Once upon a time there was a girl who was special. This is not her story. Unless you count the part where I killed her.

One of us will just have to stay at the cottage to keep an eye on her.’ […]Let’s see if Widow Hazel wouldn’t take her in during the day, maybe teach her something useful -‘No,...

And everyone lived happily, thought maybe not completely honestly, ever after. The End.

Girl, I remember well,ye, who I flung from Hell,and not a day has passed, I haven’t missedthe loss of your soul that I mourned,I’ve been bereft and forlorn,for the sweet taste of your flesh I’ve...

Look, I can appreciate this. I was young too, I felt just like you. Hated authority, hated all my bosses, thought they were full of shit. Look, it’s like they say, if you’re not a...

The term – ‘Fairy-Tales’ is so ironical in itself, when I sometimes sit to write love stories with a happy ending, it usually drags me into a dilemma whether, I should even begin with a...

Don’t go. Come with us. I promise you won’t regret it.”For a moment, Peter stood in the road indecisively, staring into the girl’s eyes as if trying to penetrate a great mystery.

The literary fairy tale became an acceptable social symbolic form through which conventionalized motifs, characters, and plots were selected, composed, arranged, and rearranged to comment on the civilizing process and to keep alive the possibility...

The truth is that Trout, like Vonnegut and Ray Bradbury and many others, writes parables. These are set in frames which have become called, for no good reason, science fiction. A better generic term would...

You may always talk to me, honey… – Started suddenly bright white moon. – The stars are too young to give you a wise advice, yet.

Believe it. The world isn’t all fairy tales and pixie dust. You need to grow up and face reality.

In hundreds of years of wish fulfillment,never once to the demon’s bereavement,had a wish gone unable to be yielded.It was love this day, which defeated the curse,and there in Hell there was little worse,than the...

All Quiet on the Western Front.

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...

Summer on the farm was glorious. Peter spent as much time out of doors as possible, and he had many playmates, since all the children were free from their spring and autumn duties of tending...

Rarely do wonder tales end unhappily. They triumph over death. The tale begins with “Once upon a time” or “Once there was” and never really ends when it ends. The ending is actually the beginning....

the onewho will jolt awakeall the unwrittenthe unsungand the unlived in me. i am waitingfor him.

It’s like a fairy tale. . . on crack!

The witch knew who had killed her and she snatched pieces of time, here and there, from the business of dying, to make her revenge.

I found the kingdom of far far away, prince charming would not be so far.

Cinderella was such a dork. She left behind her glass slipper at the ball and then went right back to her step-monster’s house. It seems to me she should have worn the glass slipper always,...

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Since these wonder tales have been with us for thousands of years and have undergone so many different changes in the oral tradition, it is difficult to determine the ideological intention of the narrator, and...

I cannot come with you, my prince,” he said with great tenderness, as he kneeled over the sleeping Neriah and placed the chain around his neck. “But perhaps, when you sleep, you will dream of...

Never interrupt a faerie circle ceremony. And, if a faerie has appeared to you, visually, do not speak to it until it has spoken to you. These two transgressions are considered so rude, that the...

There are some things even magic can’t fix.

That day and night, the bleeding and the screaming, had knocked something askew for Esme, like a picture swinging crooked on a wall. She loved the life she lived with her mother. It was beautiful....

That is what love is. A possibility that becomes a choice. A choice you keep making, over and over. Day after day. Year after year. Time after time.

Soul bonds can’t be broken. They only bend for a while . . .

She squinted at his nametag. Her eyes weren’t quite working. “What’s your name?” “Stig.””Stick?” she asked, half ready to believe it. He shook his head and pointed his long index finger at the name stitched...

For it is a true fact that faeries, just like people, very often find that a full belly and a good friend are all that they need to be happy.

Ultimately, the definition of both the wonder tale and the fairy tale, which derives from it, depends on the manner in which a narrator/author arranges known functions of a tale aesthetically and ideologically to induce...

You think her innocent/ Your little lost girl/ Caped in Inquisition red/ Yet when she leads you hunting Hyde/ Mind don’t slay Jekyll in his stead

Are you compensating for something, Monroe?” –Bastian

As in most fairy tales, there’s a prince and a princess, dragons and some magic, and the feeling it gives you that anything is possible if we could stay this way forever.

His [(Rumpelstiltskin)] feeling that his name, which is his identity, must be kept secret, or else he’ll be revealed to the world as the hunchbacked, shriveled, ridiculous creature he knows himself to be. And if...