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

Unfortunately for him he looked more like an innocent man on America’s terror watch-list rather than a gallant Viking possessing all the benefits of modernity. More like a villain in a Western fairy tale with...

When we were little, Scarlett and I were utterly convinced that we’d originally been one person in our mother’s belly. We believed that somehow, half of us wanted to be born and half wanted to...

It sounds like a fairy-tale, but not only that; this story of what man by his science and practical inventions has achieved on this earth, where he first appeared as a weakly member of the...

Tous mes anciens amours vont me revenir.’- All my old loves will be returned to me

Follow the sincerity of your heart, it will always lead you on the right path” Cinderella in Focus: Cindy’s Secret

The End” is just the beginning.

Just because something is beautiful doesn´t mean it´s good.

The sound of the pages turning was the sound of magic. The dry liquid feel of paper under fingertips was what magic felt like.

His whole life was a sham, a fairy tale. The truth hidden behind a wall of lies, each lie another brick in the wall until he probably couldn’t see the truth anymore.

The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.

And I have to admit that there is something undeniably fulfilling about hunting with Rosie. Somehow, it makes me feel as if the long list of differences between us doesn’t exist. We’re dressed the same,...

This was not a fairy-tale castle and there was no such thing as a fairy-tale ending, but sometimes you could threaten to kick the handsome prince in the ham-and-eggs.

It’s a never ending dream for everyone it seems, to find again what was once precious and has been lost.

We mature not by years, but by stories…” Cinderella In Focus:Cindy’s Secret

The whole thing becomes like this evil enchantment from a fairy tale, but you’re made to believe the spell can never be broken.

He turns the key.Presto!It opens this book of odd taleswhich transform the Brothers Grimm.Transform?As if an enlarged paper clipcould be a piece of sculpture.(And it could.)

See you later.”2. Step outside.3. Close the door.I don’t want to, really. I want to go back inside and believe Gordon’s words,like a child believing in a fairy tale, and I want to escape this...

There are days when writing is within my power and a story unfolds along a course I’ve already chosen. And then there are days when the words breathe on their own and take me by the...

Hapana! Murphy yupo! Ni mfanyabiashara maarufu huko Tanzania. Lakini ndiyo hivyo kama unavyosema … Haonekani!

Then up he got with a light heart, free from all his troubles, and walked on till he reached his mother’s house, and told her how very easy the road to good luck was.

Smartass Disciple: Master, I don’t need a fairytale.I need you to tell me the truth. Master of Stupidity: It is not funny if you just found it. No drama if no lost at first.

Painful memories, they can mend,love’s powerful, but it can rend,through the treacherous act of jealousy.A passion that seeks to destroy,the soul when it deploys,the vicious sin that is envy.Take heed my friends,when contemplating the endof...

A soul wound doesn’t grow a new layer of normality overnight” Cinderella in Focus: Cindy’Secret

The Bane…where coxswain’s dirtand seaman’s shirtsbrushed bawdily upon her chest…

In Pliny I read about the invention of clay modeling. A Sicyonian potter came to Corinth. There his daughter fell in love with a young man who had to make frequent long journeys away from...

As the literary fairy tale spread in France to every age group and every social class, it began to serve different functions, depending on the writer’s interests. It represented the glory and ideology of the...

We build our understanding of the emotional world through the myths and legends of our culture. We are all, in part, made of fairy tales.

It was not until much later when, after a deep and satisfying orgasm, I suddenly realised the true meaning of the fairy tale and the nature of the magic kiss of which it speaks.

Harken Brethren, head this impetuous realm! Tarry me far from hearth and home I fear we shall fair *snort* not well!” And so being collectively agreed, but individually impaled, the diminutive swine sought each to...

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.