If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns!

Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?

Am I really standing here, conversing with a bloody unicorn?” Tiffy was certain her mind had finally left the building.

The middle son gets a magic donkey. When you shout the word: “Bricklebrit!”, it spews gold pieces out of…And I quote:… its front and back.Yes, folks. Thing I Love #4: the Bricklebrit Donkey. You shout...

That’s why we’re out here. We were hoping Jimmi would bring enough damsels for us all, though!

Little Red Riding Hood was stalked; Cinderella was abused; the Beauty had to live with a hideous Beast; Snow White was poisoned; Hansel and Gretel were meat for a cannibal… and then we wonder why...

There is a kind of truth in everything, even fairytales. In fact, especially in fairytales… The King understood it as he looked out from the roof of the Temple and saw the clouds flying past...

She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don’t dreams in fairy...

Everything beautiful is golden and strewn with pearls. Even golden people live here. But misfortune is a dark power, a monstrous, cannibalistic giant, who is, however, vanquished, because a good woman, who happily knows how...

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

May you never grow too old to believe in magic and fairy tales.

That’s the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you’re entitled to live it. So far, though, it...

Everyone thinks of them in terms of poisoned apples and glass coffins, and forgets that they represent girls who walked into dark forests and remade them into their own reflections.

Though now we think of fairy tales as stories intended for very young children, this is a relatively modern idea. In the oral tradition, magical stories were enjoyed by listeners young and old alike, while...

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men…

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected.”(Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)

It was an irresistible development of modern illustration (so largely photographic) that borders should be abandoned and the “picture” end only with the paper. This method may be suitable for for photographs; but it is...

Fairy tales don’t tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.

But here’s a great thing about stories: they can be retold.

I don’t know these stories as well as they know me, I’ve discovered.

If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

He’d used the amulet to read my thoughts again. I pictured smacking him in the face.

The fairy tale, which to this day is the first tutor of children because it was once the first tutor of mankind, secretly lives on in the story. The first true storyteller is, and will...

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself.

I can’t go back to yesterday, because I was a different person then

In Russian fairy tales, the narrative flows a little differently. In those stories, you won’t find a tale for Cinderella, one for Snow White, one for Rapunzel. Instead, a peculiar cast of characters recurs over...

All the queens of my acquaintance have children, some three, some seven, and some as many as twelve; and my queen has not one. I feel ill-used.” So he made up his mind to be...

I wasn’t afraid of your average dark alley. I had standard Agency-issue spells in my coat and a nine millimeter in my purse for dealing with the less dangerous pests, but even I knew you...

I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest products of 3,000 Million years of organic evolution, than a...

so that it isn’t upsetting to anybody. It’s something we’ve always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus complex, about psychotic mothers, like those of Snow White and Hansel and Gretel,...

Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever after. But the beast did not want to be tamed, for he was...

Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

Faith is not just thinking you can do things, but believing god can handle all things!

The lamb baa-ed vigorously as Mary dragged it into the manicure room, and Zel winced. She really should insist Julie come work, She could use the help, plus it would mean extra mother-daughter time–and, Zel...

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is ‘as good as she is beautiful.’ I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to...

She lived on the moon and was quite unattainable. I suppose he must’ve starved or pined away or fallen off the wall at some point.

But most dragons seem to have interesting personalities–besides probably having quite good reasons for what they do, if only one could understand them

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...

My feelings for Raphael are mine, and mine alone. I loved him, and that is all anyone needs to know. The rest is no business of any man’s.

Leonora is the grownups’ version of Cinderella. She doesn’t take crap from any ugly stepsisters. She doesn’t sit indoors waiting to be rescued by prince charming. Oh, no, she rescues prince charming, Florestan, who’s locked...

The strong belief can make things out of imagination.But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.

Clichés are relatives of the fairy tale, and tropes aren’t bad; they go with the territory.

The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they filled forty–one volumes of a massive publication called the Cabinet des Fées. Charles...

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is...

For most of human history, ‘literature,’ both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most...

I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

Sometimes you must shed your skin to save it.

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They’re fairy tales for grown-ups.