“ All these threads, like the ley-lines he'd read about in his Time-Life history books, converging on the Cicciaro girl, who lay there unaware, a glass-coffined beauty whose kingdom was in ruins. Garth Risk Hallberg
“ You're just so confident and self-sufficient. So many girls - especially in my world - are so insecure and jealous. We rely so much on one another, but we're so mean to each other at the same time. We… Chris Colfer
“ But after being on the run I've learned a life spent creating enemies isn't worth leading. Having allies is the best advantage in the world. Chris Colfer
“ And the old woman who had been the prince’s nurse became nurse to the prince’s children — at least she was called so; though she was far too old to do anything for them but love them. Yet she still th… Andrew Lang
“ Even when a prohibition in a fairy-story is guessed to be derived from some taboo once practised long ago, it has probably been preserved in the later stages of the tale's history because of the great… J.R.R. Tolkien
“ As it so happens, Mr. Jest, I’ve sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast… Marissa Meyer
“ The fairy tale of film—created with the magic of animation—is the modern equivalent of the great parables of the Middle Ages. Creation is the word. Not adaptation. We can translate the ancient fairy t… Walt Disney Company
“ I’ve never believed in fairy tales. One day, the fairies will tell this story. There will be a valiant prince, a part no doubt played in history by the brave Vartan who journeys to rescue his bride fr… T.T. Escurel
“ Do people choose the art that inspires them — do they think it over, decide they might prefer the fabulous to the real? For me, it was those early readings of fairy tales that made me who I was as a r… Alice Hoffman
“ Why didn't my father get to give Mom the fairy tale? Why do most people fail to give each other the fairy tale? Matthew Quick
“ Madame d'Aulnoy is the true mother of the modern fairy tale. She invented the modern Court of Fairyland, with its manners, its fairies, its queens, its amorous, its cruel, its good, its evil, its odio… Andrew Lang
“ If there is one ‘constant’ in the structure and theme of the wonder tale, it is transformation. Jack D. Zipes
“ 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 pot… Jane Yolen
“ Inevitably they find their way into the forest. It is there that they lose and find themselves. It is there that they gain a sense of what is to be done. The forest is always large, immense, great and… Jack D. Zipes
“ And without further argument he unsheathed the sword and cleaved Miss Foxe's head from her neck. He knew what was supposed to happen. He knew that this awkward, whispering creature before him should n… Helen Oyeyemi
“ I will tell you, too, that every fairy tale has a moral. The moral of my story may be that love is a constraint, as strong as any belt. And this is certainly true, which makes it a good moral. Or it m… Theodora Goss
