“ You see, none of these conflicts are about things that people only sort of like. It is always about love. You may think me blasphemous to use the Passion of the Christ as an example of drama, but not… John C. Wright
“ Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark. Anne Sexton
“ 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 es… Sarah Pinborough
“ We thought she'd save him. We all hoped so much that she'd save him because it would have been like a fairy tale and when one had lived in the dark for so long it's very difficult not to believe in fa… Fredrik Backman
“ Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you. Marissa Meyer
“ I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep. Anna Sheehan
“ There once was a woman named Story Easton who couldn't decide if she should kill herself, or eat a double cheeseburger. Elizabeth Leiknes
“ 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 the sea & the stars & the… Kate Forsyth
“ Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happin… Andrew Lang
“ You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table. C.S. Lewis
“ It could be said that the lectures changed the way many people thought about myth, fairy story, and poetry, and even about the relationship of imagination to thought and to language. One of the brilli… Colin Duriez
“ Fairy tales were the door to the world of imagination for me as a child, that land I often lived in when real life wasn’t quite enough. Regan Walker
“ 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 it likely,… Andrew Lang
