258 quotes found
“I like stories where women save themselves.”
“A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar.”
“Bring a sword to school. Trust me-those girls will leave you alone.”
“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.”
“Cinderella proof that a new pair of shoes can change your life.”
“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....”
“You don't feed nightingales on fairy-tales”
“I love the fact that Perrault's princess goes on living and struggling after she finds her prince, and that Perrault doesn't shrink from the weirdness of Sleeping Beauty being over a hundred years ...”
“Pan took the joke good-naturedly, probably deciding it wasn't a good idea to argue with a fifteen-year-old who had just pulled two people up ten feet.”
“In Miamas, fairy tales are still produced around the clock, lovingly handmade one by one, and only the very, very finest of them are exported. Most are only told once and then they fall flat on the...”
“There is no greater achievement than being a grandfather who tells fairy tales to grandchildren.”
“No one is too old for fairy tales.”
“Tonight was a perfect illustration of why Cinderella and the Prince get married twenty-four hours after they meet. Because when you're living with your stepmother, there is no happily ever after.”
“It dawned on her as she grew older, that fairy tales instilled false hopes in people, and that no white knights existed in this world. The mothers should be well aware of that aspect of reality, so...”
“No one, I fancy, would discredit a story that the Archbishop of Canterbury slipped on a banana skin merely because he found that a similar comic mishap had been reported of many people, and especia...”
“She'd fall back asleep dreaming of hurricanes whipping the palm trees around her childhood home, trying to run from the Godzilla-sized beast that rushed to devour her. But her feet were stuck in in...”
“So when she looked in the mirror one day, and saw the beginning of thorny protrusions on her legs, a slight greenish tinge to her skin, she sighed.It was inevitable. - The Monster In Her Bedroom, H...”
“[The fairy tale] is accused of giving children a false impression of the world they live in. But I think no literature that children could read gives them less of a false impression. I think what p...”
“Dont look for permanent love. You will be disappointed. It is found only in novels, fairy-tales, and films.”
“Fairy tales are such evil stories for young children. Every time I'm in a mess I expect a long-haired posh-speaking man to come trotting into my life (on a horse of course, literally trotting himse...”
