Fairy Tales Quotes

My head says forget it, my heart says I’ll regret it, and what my stomach tells me, I should not ignore. Oh no, I gotta go, give me a leave, not your sleeve! I know this will cease, when I feel peace. So I will help a boy, come to Joy, a risk I shall take, it’s no mistake, my stomach tells me so.” Deetkatu, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure

~ Chris Disano Davenport

When you are open and aware, it allows for all magical possibilities! We, here in the forest, can see all that goes on in our environment on the surface; but we have true awareness that sees beyond the shallow! This belief comes from the depths of wisdom that there is more than meets the eyes!”Den the Wise Oak Tree, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure

~ Chris Disano Davenport

Everything has a purpose on our earth which reflects within us our own self-worth.Chepi, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure

~ Chris Disano Davenport

There is no telling what he will do! A bind, I know he will have to unglue. This day will surely reveal a clue. Beware of the Deetkatu!” Trinity, Meet the Little People…An Enchanting Adventure

~ Chris Disano Davenport

True happiness is a state of mind and must come to you through the recognition of your own power and the finding of your own place in the world.” Venice Bloodworth, Key to Yourself

~ Chris Disano Davenport

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~ Priya Ardis

The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks andtelephones, murder and assassination.

~ Marcus Sedgwick

Like ´Bluebeard´, the fairy tale of ´Snow White´does not record a single, appalling crime, but testifies to a structural and endemic conflict in society that was political and social as well as personal, producing many, many instances of similar violence.

~ Marina Warner

Ava's father believed that myths and fairy tales - like dreams - opened a window into the unconscious. by listening to the language of dreams and old tales, he said, all humans could learn to understand themselves and the world, better.

~ Kate Forsyth

The eternal child. - We think that play and fairy tales belong to childhood:how shortsighted that is! As though we would want at any time of life tolive without play and fairy tales! We give these things other names, to besure, and feel differently about them, but precisely this is the evidencethat they are the same things - for the child too regards play as his workand fairy tales as his truth. The brevity of life ought to preserve us from apedantic division of life into different stages - as though each broughtsomething new - and a poet ought for once to present a man of twohundred: one, that is, who really does live without play and fairy tales.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Every time he raised his hands on her. He killed a prince from a fairy tale somewhere deep within her heart, brutally.

~ Akshay Vasu

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.

~ Ada Calhoun

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.

~ Neil Gaiman

There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

~ Michael Ende

Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

~ John Connolly

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor.

~ Jack D. Zipes

Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.

~ Greenhaven

He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting.

~ Neil Gaiman

Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?

~ Priya Ardis

Beware a kiss, he told her. Kisses are powerful things. You expose part of your soul.

~ Ruth Frances Long

Well, can you tell her that?He looked down at his feet. I will. I will.Guy-speak for, I plan to keep avoiding her until she gives up.

~ Priya Ardis

If I were to lock you up in a dungeon, I guarantee you would not be bored.

~ Priya Ardis

Plus, I happened to be a history nerd. Why else would I be interested in a guy born in the year 519?

~ Priya Ardis

The last declaration he'd made to me hung between us. The L word. The one that had nothing to do with like.

~ Priya Ardis

She moves like beauty, she whispers to us of wind and forest—and she tells us stories, such stories that we wake in the night, dreaming dreams of a life long past. she reminds us of what we used to be.She reminds us of what we could be.

~ Meagan Spooner

The combination of razor-sharp wit (completely real) and his credentials (completely fake) had won them over in the end.

~ Priya Ardis

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 best fantasies pull aside the velvet curtain of mere appearance. ... In most instances, fantasy ultimately returns us to our own now re-enchanted world, reminding us that it is neither prosaic nor meaningless, and that how we live and what we do truly matters.

~ Michael Dirda

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. The story does not contain the answer, it is the answer.

~ Brian Wicker

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.

~ Jane Yolen

The girl burst out laughing, she knew she was nobody's meat.

~ Angela Carter

We are in this fairyland on sufferance, it is not for us to quarrel with the conditions under which we enjoy this wild vision of the world.

~ G.k. Chesterton

I've spent my life wondering when I would earn the right to be a man again. Despite the undeserved good fortune of finding my true love, I always held a kernel of bitterness in my heart that things were not different... I will never be the man that I was. That man is dead—slain—for better or for worse, by my life as the Beast. In your words, the world does not need who I was.

~ Jack Heckel

There is nothing so nice as supposing. It's almost like being a fairy. If you suppose anything hard enough it seems as if it were real.

~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Rap un zeal' Demon within. I might as well put up a giant 'Come and Get Eaten' sign for the good those warning runes do.

~ Sabrina Zbasnik

I am married to a prince who will one day be a king. Usually this is where the fairy tale ends. Stories don't go much further than this moment, and I fear there's a good reason for it. A sense of dread hung over today, a black cloud I still can't get rid of. It is an unease deep in the heart of me, feeding off my strength.

~ Victoria Aveyard

The demon of revenge had already taken hold of his heart. The cancer of injustice had already eaten at his cheerful soul, leaving a skeleton of a carcass behind, one that could never feel compassion for humans—or anything else—again.

~ Cameron Jace

Is life a fantasy or fairy tales?

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Life is a fantasy.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Anyway, it’s unthinkable! Dragons and knights are born enemies. They need to be enemies just like dogs hate cats, cats hate mice and mice hate scientists. Without somebody to hate where would all the hate go? The hate would just boil up inside you, eat away and cause you to have indigestion then a heart attack. We need to release the anger, and we release it on dragons who release it back on us. We slay them and they roast us. It is the natural order of things, Emma.

~ Elias Zapple

Screw fairy tales. My life was way more interesting.

~ Rebecca Chastain