Fairytale Quotes

The wall sawyer did not ask the little queen what she did. This was because in the little queen’s kingdom, people only volunteered their doings if they wanted to, and they never asked others their doings. It was considered impolite. Asking what one did was like asking who they were, and that was too simple a question for a very complex answer.

~ Meia Geddes

The little queen’s mother and father had said that she would live on, for a long time, and that her tears would magnify the life around her forever more, but they had not explained how she should go about going on.

~ Meia Geddes

Good for Christmas-time is the ruddy colour of the cloak in which--the tree making a forest of itself for her to trip through, with her basket--Little Red Riding-Hood comes to me one Christmas Eve to give me information of the cruelty and treachery of that dissembling Wolf who ate her grandmother, without making any impression on his appetite, and then ate her, after making that ferocious joke about his teeth. She was my first love. I felt that if I could have married Little Red Riding-Hood, I should have known perfect bliss. But, it was not to be; and there was nothing for it but to look out the Wolf in the Noah's Ark there, and put him late in the procession on the table, as a monster who was to be degraded.

~ Charles Dickens

I will do everything I can to be the man that you want, the man that the seven-year-old you used to dream about. I will bring you flowers, I’ll take care of you when you’re sick, I’ll give you space when you need it and I’ll never leave your side when you want someone there. I want to be better than I am because of you, Paisley.

~ Kandi Steiner

It was your personality that consumed me. You became my favorite. My favorite of them all…

~ Jennifer Renson

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who's the hottest bitch of all?

~ Sara Humphreys

Scaoileadh Me.... 'Release me.' That was what he said. No doubt about it. It was in Gaelic, but that was what the voice said. Holy. Crap.

~ Sara Humphreys

You might be a fairy tale leprechaun man but at the heart of it you're still a man who won't talk about anything.

~ Sara Humphreys

Your American fairytales end that way.  Real fairytales end in blood or tears.

~ Luna Lindsey

…while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.

~ Gail Carson Levine

Yes sir, the fish was left in place of the crystal ball. It's been bagged and tagged for analysis.”Great. Now we have another red herring on our hands.

~ A.f. Stewart

I marched to the head Elf. “Where’s the frog?

~ A.f. Stewart

My father lost me to the Beast at cards

~ Angela Carter