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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
Fairy tales lie just as much as statistics do, but sometimes you can find a grain of truth in them.
Fairy tales are experienced by their hearers and readers, not as realistic, but as symbolic poetry.
Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.
I do not know the meaning of my sadness; there is an old fairy tale that I cannot get out of my mind.
Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.
The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.
Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.
That's what I wanted 'Pirate Jenny' to be: a queer, revolutionary fairy tale for the people that I love.
Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.
Fairy tales have a hidden power, and their appeal never ends. They're the best way to get messages across.
I never grew up reading or fantasizing about fairy tales. I was always too busy, like, outside being a kid.
You see the fairy tale - four minutes of glory at the Olympics. I thought my life would be cake after that.
I wished that, for once, faery tales – real faery tales, not Disney fairy tales – would have a happy ending.
Pied Piper' came to me all at once; I wanted to do a fairy-tale movie with some edge, but not 'dark,' per se.
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?
Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life.
Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.
I am very much interested in fairy tales. I guess that most of the films I like to do have this kind of aspect.
Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.
I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.
Usually, the fairy tale ends with the girl marrying the prince. But mine started as soon as the marriage was over.
Conservatives used to believe in confronting hard truths, not succumbing to comforting fairy tales. Some still do.
There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.
When fairy tales are written in the west, they're known as folklore. In the east, fairy tales are called religions.
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!
I played a bee! It was a Polish fairy tale we performed at school when I was seven or eight. I had wings fixed to me.
She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.
I didn't like fairy tales when I was younger. I found a lot of fairy tales scary. They really didn't sit well with me.
Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free.
In the fairy tales, the poor girl smiles when she becomes a princess. Right now, I don't know if I'll ever smile again.
Do you believe in fairy tales?" "What...what kind of fairy tales?" "The kind you aren't supposed to waste your life on.
And now, I'm a best selling author, a different sort of fairy tale that I still sometimes wonder when I'll wake up from.
It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these
As a little girl living in the English countryside, I used to go running around in the forests, creating my own fairy tale.
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
I am your fairy tale. Your dream. Your wishes and desires, and I am your thirst and your hunger and your food and your drink.
The Goldilocks Enigma is the idea that everything in the universe is just right for life, like the porridge in the fairy tale.
It could have been like a fairy tale. But fairy tales aren't real. Things don't work like that. There's a price for everything.
It's the problem with fairy tales. From far away, they seem so perfect. But up close, they're just as complicated as real life.
I've always loved fairy tales and magic - especially twisting them on their ears and poor trolls have always had such a bad rep.
Everything that I have told you is, of course, a fairy tale. Life is magical, after all. Nothing is safe and everything changes.
Chicago is partly a fairy tale because it's inside one person's head, so that part of it's made up and the rest of it is reality.
Like a magpie, I am a scavenger of shiny things: fairy tales, dead languages, weird folk beliefs, fascinating religions, and more.
To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.
Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.
I think it would be hard to find an American who, during their first week at Cambridge didn't genuinely feel like it was fairy tale.
And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on.
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.