Quotes tagged ‘fairy tales’

“You Girl Scouts want to hear a story? Once upon a time there was a magical place where it never rained. The end. [snickers scornfully]”

— Louis Sachar, Marion Sevillo "Mr. Sir", Jon Voight, imdb.com

“Rachel: Chandler wrote something about me on that paper and I want to see it! Ross: Chandler, isn't that the short story you were writing? Rachel: Short story? And I'm in it? I want to read it! Ross, Joey, Chandler: NO! Joey: Why don't you read it to her? Chandler: It was summer... and it was hot. R…”

— Marta Kauffman, David Crane, Rachel Green, Jennifer Aniston, imdb.com

“You know how when you were a little kid and you believed in fairy tales? That fantasy of what your life would be—white dress, Prince Charming who'd carry you away to a castle on a hill. You'd lie in bed at night and close your eyes and you had complete and utter faith....Santa Claus, the Tooth Fairy…”

— Kip Koenig, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com

“My mother believes that children shouldn't be shielded from the realities of the world. I do! Isn't that why we read them fairy tales in the first place?”

— Bruce Zimmerman, Jennifer Jareau, A. J. Cook, imdb.com

“There was this young prince who wanted to win the heart of the fairest maiden in the land, so he climbed to the top of the tallest tower in the kingdom and he caught a falling star for her. Unfortunately, he was so excited that he dropped it and it smashed into all of these pieces. So he frantically…”

— Jim Clemente, Emily Prentiss, Paget Brewster, imdb.com

“I chose fairytales and Goddesses in Wild Embers because I wanted to focus on the woman as a whole, the idea of the woman being flawed instead of the idea that women must be perfect by being silent and dutiful as has been put forth by fairytales of old.”

— Nikita Gill, shopcatalog.com

“She said, ‘You cannot hide forever, though you may try. I’ve seen you in the kitchen, in the garden. I’ve seen the things you have sewn – curtains of dawn, twilight blankets and dresses for the sisters like a garden of stars. I have heard the stories you tell. You are the one who transforms, who cre…”

— Francesca Lia Block, amazon.com

“But the woman came to her then. The woman with hair of red like roses, hair of white like snowfall. She was young and old. She was blind and could see everything. She spoke softly, in whispers, but her voice carried across the mountain ranges like sleeping giants, the cities lit like fairies and the…”

— Francesca Lia Block, amazon.com

“She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.”

— Michelle Madow, amazon.com

“With your fairy tales and fabrications and potent manipulations, you have only succeeded in making me an alien to your every affection.”

— Lori Jenessa Nelson, amazon.com

“Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“I like fairy tales, and I like dreaming. I try to weave the reality into the dream.”

— Grace Coddington, wordsofwomen.co

“Mother didn’t understand that children aren’t frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.”

— Kate Morton, amazon.com

“Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.”

— G. K. Chesterton, amazon.com

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”

— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com

“She doesn’t wait around for a prince to charge in and slay the dragon. Maybe she saves herself and in the end, rides off into her own goddamned sunset.”

— Julie Johnson, amazon.com

“She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.”

— Michelle Madow, amazon.com

“When I used to read fairy-tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one!”

— Lewis Carroll, amazon.com

“At the end of the day, faith is a funny thing. It turns up when you don’t really expect it. It’s like one day you realize the fairy tale may be slightly different than you dreamed of. The castle, well, it may not be a castle. And it’s not so important that it’s happy ever after just that it’s happy…”

— Mimi Schmir, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, amazon.com

“I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark.”

— Stephen Hawking, books.google.com