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“When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is alw...”
“There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.”
“...fairy tales, just a fancy word for lies...”
“If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.”
“The wolf said, "You know, my dear, it isn't safe for a little girl to walk through these woods alone." Red Riding Hood said, "I find your sexist remark offensive in the extreme, but I will ignore i...”
“The romantic fairy tales we grew up with -- where marriage is the happy ending rather than the opening scene -- are not useful for grown-ups.”
“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”
“It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make...”
“Once upon a time for that is how all stories should begin there was a boy who lost his mother.”
“Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.”
“Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.”
“Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul.”
“Many readers simply can't stomach fantasy. They immediately picture elves with broadswords or mighty-thewed barbarians with battle axes, seeking the bejeweled Coronet of Obeisance ... (But) the bes...”
“We may say that the characters in fairytales are good to think with[and that] the job of the fairytale is to show that Why? questions cannot be answered except in one way: by telling the stories. T...”
“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.”
“Fairy tales, fantasy, legend and myth...these stories, and their topics, and the symbolism and interpretation of those topics...these things have always held an inexplicable fascination for me," sh...”
“He's MINE", I howled. "Mine! And I'm his! You knew this when you slunk into our bed. I told you at the beginning, and I thought you understood, well, you understand now, don't you?"He had the nerve...”
“Life is a fantasy.”
“Screw fairy tales. My life was way more interesting.”
“And those women were sneaky. They understood that including fantastical elements in their tales- golden eggs, signing harps, talking frogs- worked to mask a deeper purpose....it made the stories lo...”
