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“To most people today, the name Snow White evokes visions of dwarfs whistling as they work, and a wideeyed, fluttery princess singing, "Some day my prince will come." (A friend of mine claims this s...”
“Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.”
“Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolph...”
“I don't know these stories as well as they know me, I've discovered.”
“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...”
“What Grimm fairy tale featured apiarian morphing humans?”
“This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.”
“With a glance back towards the house, he pulled the secret sketches from within. He'd been working at them on and off for a fortnight now, ever since he'd come across Cousin Eliza's fairy tales amo...”
“As it so happens, Mr. Jest, Ive sometimes come to believe as many as six impossible things before breakfast”
“She was so lovely, it hurt his chest to gaze at her, especially knowing she was courageous and clever too.”
“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 wo...”
“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 gr...”
“Thing is," Grial said in a conspiratorial voice, "let me tell you a little secret, girlie. That road- those roads, all roads and paths in fact- they never end. You might think they do. You might th...”
“Even in the wood, there was a right road and a wrong one. All the most terrifying fairy tales inevitably began with some foolish innocent (or two) straying from the path. Then anything might happen.”
“He looks up at me with watery eyes and asks, "How can you, of all people, say everything will be all right?"He has a point. I consider my answer. "Well, it's better than saying 'Keep on crying, I'm...”
“Youre wrong about one thing: fairy-tales do exist. Millions of existing parents read existing fairy-tales every night from existing books to kids who, funnily enough...... exist, yeah, I know. I me...”
“We're a couple of travelers!" I called up to her. "I'm Briony, and this is Ella!""Grammy said I ought not to talk to strangers!" she called back."We're not strangers!" Ella shouted. "We're with the u”
“I shook my head. I thought you had a No princesses rule.Rules are made to be broken, said Grimm.Ari sat back in the chair, her eyes closed.Of course, young lady, theres the matter of how we sign ou...”
“IN MY DEFENSE, I didnt mean to start the Apocalypse. It wasnt just my personal aversion to oblivion; I had a clear financial motive: The end of the world is bad for business.”
“Then find out what your sword is - find your own advantage - and wear it proudly.”
