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Fairy-Tales  Quotes
Though it’s fearful, Though it’s deep, though it’s dark And though you may lose the path, Though you may encounter wolves, You can’t just act, You have to listen. you can’t just act, You have...

—Stephen Sondheim

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It is our responsibility to keep telling these tales–to tell them in a way that they teach and entertain and give meaning to our lives,’ he [Jim] said later. ‘This is not merely an obligation,...

—Brian Jay

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Hammer”, I finished lamely, as he waited patiently for my thoughts to find their voice, “we have got to find better words for the things we have in our hearts.””Words seem to be weak things,”...

—Amy Lane

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Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been true; but religion has murdered millions for doubting or denying her dogmas and...

—Gratis P.

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There is the great lesson of ‘Beauty and the Beast,’ that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

—G.K. Chesterton

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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...

—Jack Zipes

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Because, no matter how old we get, we always need to believe in fairytales.

—Kristen Ashley

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There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

—Neil Gaiman

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You deserved it.

—Priya Ardis

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Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps no coincidence that nature in the Cinderella stories facilitates transformation, for nature itself...

—The Nature

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Creators of literary fairy tales from the 17th-century onward include writers whose works are still widely read today: Charles Perrault (17th-century France), Hans Christian Andersen (19th-century Denmark), George Macdonald and Oscar Wilde (19th-century England). The...

—Terri Windling

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…she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.”Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it...

—Andrew Lang

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If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

—Audrey Hepburn

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The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and...

—J.R.R. Tolkien

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If our life is ever really as beautiful as a fairy tale, we shall have to remember that all the beauty of a fairy tale lies in this: that the prince has a wonder which...

—G.K. Chesterton

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The tales of Elfland do not stand or fall on their actuality but on their truthfulness, their speaking to the human condition, the longings we all have for the Faerie Other.

—Jane Yolen

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Man, Grandma, what big hair you have.””The better to style with, my dear.

—Neal Shusterman

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…Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries…

—John Geddes

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If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.

—Priya Ardis

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Mrs. Pott’s beady black eyes narrowed,”Do you know how many glass slippers I have to stitch when I get home? There’s a Mad Hatter serenading a toaster as we speak. There could be mayhem wreaking...

—Sophie Avett

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It dawned on her as she grew older, that fairy tales instilled false hopes in people, and that no white knights existed in this world. The mothers should be well aware of that aspect of...

—Alexis Lawrence

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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

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Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.

—Dejan Stojanovic

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[…] and the pea was put in the museum, where it can still be seen, if no one has stolen it.

—Hans Christian

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The fairy tale emanates from specific struggles to humanize bestial and barbaric forces, which have terrorized our minds and communities in concrete ways, threatening to destroy free will and human compassion. The fairy tale sets...

—Jack Zipes

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There’s a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There’s magic in the trees & the hills & the river & the rocks, in...

—Kate Forsyth

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Don’t be afraid to grow up, Peter. It’s only a trap if you forget how to fly.

—Jorge Enrique

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Sometimes,’ Beauty said softly, sipping from her silver goblet, ‘everyone needs to let the beast inside them out for a while’. She laughed, a sound like a waterfall meeting the sea and more glitter escaped...

—Sarah Pinborough

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Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul.

—Ruth Frances

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The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage.

—Philip Pullman

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Once upon a time there was a man with no heart. Drifting through black-and-white life, caring naught for those hurt, and never, ever allowing another near enough to hurt him. Until, on the least likely...

—Shannon Noelle

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Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

—Alice Hoffman

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Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

—Anne Sexton

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Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.

—Greenhaven

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Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

—G.K. Chesterton

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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...

—Jack Zipes

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Mother didn’t understand that children aren’t frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

—Kate Morton

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He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and...

—Neil Gaiman

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Tomorrow, I need you to die.

—Priya Ardis

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In fairy tales the evil characters disappear or die, in reality, evil spreads while you wait for your hero on a horse, only to realise the sword to save yourself was always in your hand…

—Seja Majeed

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Silence is another element we find in classic fairy tales — girls muted by magic or sworn to silence in order to break enchantment. In “The Wild Swans,” a princess is imprisoned by her stepmother,...

—Terri Windling

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Are you the same woman I brought here, Sasha? You’re like a kid at Christmastime.”–Monroe”You would be, too, if someone fulfilled your most secret fantasies.”–Sasha

—Bethany Averie

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Carelessness was once something to be owned. They wore it around their necks as they joined the springtime breeze while ducking in and out of the forest believing their fairy tale.

—A. Lynn

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Il Principe diede mano alla Principessa perché si alzasse: ella era già abbigliata e con gran magnificenza: ed egli fu abbastanza prudente da farle osservare, che era vestita come la mi’ nonna, e che aveva...

—Charles Perrault

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nursery,” as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused.

—J.R.R. Tolkien

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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;...

—G.K. Chesterton

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Ah—now you think I have been lying to you, that this is only a story. It has a king in it. And while a story with Death might be true, a story with a king...

—Jane Yolen

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The End” is just the beginning.

—Kelsey Macke

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Seeing the transformation in Aaron made me wonder how it would feel to have someone-even a not-so-nice guy like Aaron- look at me the way he looked at Anjali.

—Polly Shulman

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The last declaration he’d made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.

—Priya Ardis

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