The thing about fairy tales is that the princess find her prince, but there's usually a price to pay. A compromise is required for happily ever after. The woman in the fair tale is general the one who...
Not all fairy tales have happily ever afters, some just have afters.
And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.
People would rather believe in fairy godmothers and divine intervention than to think that you took charge of your own destiny.
There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away...
I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.
A fairy-tale life exists only in fairy tales.
Once upon a time the fairy tales begin. But then they end and often you don't know really what has happened, what was meant to happen, you only know what you've been told, what the words suggest.
Rosina had the fierce charm of the rather nasty girl in the fairy-tale who fails to get the prince, but is more interesting than the girl who does, and has better lines too.
If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.
A world without fairy tales and myths would be as drab as life without music
Don't ever let anyone tell you that fairy tales aren't real. I drink a potion made from magic beans every day, and it brings me back to life.
My heart broke a little at her unblemished view of life: She still believed in innocent secrets, the heady rush of a good mystery, and happily ever after... (I wasn't about to disabuse her of those sw...
Hey, be patient you'll have to kiss a few frogs before you find one that's your prince
At all ages, if [fantasy and myth] is used well by the author and meets the right reader, it has the same power: to generalize while remaining concrete, to present in palpable form not concepts or eve...
I don't know these stories as well as they know me, I've discovered.
Cinderella proof that a new pair of shoes can change your life.
You don't feed nightingales on fairy-tales
Fairy tales have always been about getting through the worst of everything, the darkest and the deepest and the bloodiest of events. They are about surviving, and what you look like when you emerge fr...
Am I the same cold, ragged damp Sara? And to think I used to pretend and pretend and wish there were fairies! The one thing I always wanted was to see a fairy story come true. I am in a fairy story....
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