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• And when we are with Alex, I might as well not be there. They speak in a language of whispers and giggles and secrets; their words are like a fairy-tale tangle of thorns, which place a wall between us.

  Lauren Oliver

  Wall, Secret, Alex

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Hana: A Delirium Short Story”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• Stories took twists and turns down fairy-tale paths or down very human everyday ones. You think you’re at the end of the book, and it’s only the end of a chapter.

  Deb Caletti

  Book, Thinking, Everyday

  Deb Caletti (2013). “The Story of Us”, p.342, Simon and Schuster

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• Yesterday's fairy tale is today's fact. The magician is only one step ahead of his audience.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Yesterday, Today, Facts

  ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH (1963). “NORTH TO THE ORIENT”

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• A writer is dreamed and transfigured into being by spells, wishes, goldfish, silhouettes of trees, boxes of fairy tales dropped in the mud, uncles' and cousins' books, tablets and capsules and powders...and then one day you find yourself leaning here, writing on that round glass table salvaged from the Park View Pharmacy--writing this, an impossibility, a summary of who you came to be where you are now, and where, God knows, is that?

  Cynthia Ozick

  Cousin, Uncles, Book

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• In fairy tales there's always one person who is made for one other, and they find each other and live happily ever after. Cal was my person. I couldn't imagine anyone more perfect. Yet what kind of sick fairy tale would it be if he was the one made exactly right for me and I wasn't right for him?

  Cate Tiernan

  Perfect, Sick, Kind

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• SHE is neither pink nor pale, And she never will be all mine; She learned her hands in a fairy-tale, And her mouth on a valentine. She has more hair than she needs; In the sun ’tis a woe to me! And her voice is a string of colored beads, Or steps leading into the sea. She loves me all that she can, And her ways to my ways resign; But she was not made for any man, And she never will be all mine.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Valentine, Men, Hands

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2011). “Renascence and Other Poems”, p.36, Courier Corporation

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• Love in the real world doesn’t usually work out the way stories make us think it should. We don’t always get fairy-tale endings. People split up and move on. Just because you love someone doesn’t mean you can’t love someone else.” - Georgina to Brandy

  Richelle Mead

  Real, Moving, Mean

  Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Shadows”, p.78, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Fairy tales begin with conflict because we all begin our lives with conflict. We are all misfit for the world, and somehow we must fit in, fit in with other people, and thus we must invent or find the means through communication to satisfy as well as resolve conflicting desires and instincts.

  Jack Zipes

  Communication, Mean, People

  Jack Zipes (2012). “The Irresistible Fairy Tale: The Cultural and Social History of a Genre”, p.2, Princeton University Press

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• Two forces create eternity - a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Dream, Two, Eternity

  "The Sun Watches the Sun". Book by Dejan Stojanovic (Sequence: "Forgotten Place", Chapter: "A Fairy Tale and the End", p. 40), June 13, 2012.

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• Human beings never enjoy complete happiness in this world. I was not born for a different destiny to the rest of my species: to imagine such a lot befalling me is a fairy tale -- a daydream." "Which I can and will realise. I shall begin today.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Destiny, Different, World

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “Jane Eyre (World Classics, Unabridged)”, p.249, Vij Books India Pvt Ltd

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• Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the window of a house in which dwelt the writer of fairy tales. The swallow sang "Tweet, tweet," and from his song came the whole story.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Country, Song, Farewell

  Hans Christian Andersen (1901). “Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Complete)”, p.811, Library of Alexandria

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• When you are young so many things are difficult to believe, and yet the dullest people will tell you that they are true--such things, for instance, as that the earth goes round the sun, and that it is not flat but round. But the things that seem really likely, like fairy-tales and magic, are, so say the grown-ups, not true at all. Yet they are so easy to believe, especially when you see them happening.

  E. Nesbit

  Believe, People, Magic

  E. Nesbit (2013). “Delphi Complete Novels of E. Nesbit”, p.1496, Delphi Classics

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• Life isn't a fairy tale, and happy endings are few and far between

  Kristen Bell

  Happy Endings, Fairy, Tales

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• It is good for children to find themselves facing the elements of a fairy tale - they are well-equipped to deal with these

  Neil Gaiman

  Children, Elements, Tales

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “M Is for Magic”, p.30, Harper Collins

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• They are enthusiasts, devotees. Addicts. Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent. They seek each other out, these people of such specific like mind. They tell of how they found the circus, how those first few steps were like magic. Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars… When they depart, they shake hands and embrace like old friends, even if they have only just met, and as they go their separate ways they feel less alone than they had before.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stars, Hands, People

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• The more one knows fairy tales the less fantastical they appear; they can be vehicles of the grimmest realism, expressing hope against all the odds with gritted teeth.

  Marina Warner

  Odds, Teeth, Tales

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• I'm a romantic and I kinda believed in this fairy tale. And in some ways I think that's always been to my advantage, because like if you can believe in something great, I feel like you can achieve something great.

  Katy Perry

  Believe, Thinking, Way

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• There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She looked like a princess in a fairy tale, waiting at the top of her tower for someone to ride up and rescue her. Not that traditional princess behavior was like Isabelle at all. Isabelle with her whip and boots and knives would chop anyone who tried to pen her up in a tower into pieces, build a bridge out of the remains, and walk carelessly to freedom, her hair looking fabulous the entire time.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Lakes, Hair

  Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.547, Simon and Schuster

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• I loved him, but love isn't enough. All the fairy tales, the romance novels, the soap operas; they're all lies. Love does not conquer all.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Romance, Doe

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2008). “The Lunatic Cafe: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel”, p.176, Penguin

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• Once upon a time, fairy tales were AWESOME!

  Adam Gidwitz

  Once Upon A Time, Fairy, Tales

  Adam Gidwitz (2010). “A Tale Dark and Grimm”, p.8, Penguin

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• Oh yeah. That's why. Like a fairy tale. I was marrying the Prince. I just happened to be in love with the pauper.

  Amanda Hocking

  Yeah, Tales, Happened

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• [Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man. ...Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachment to the forms...

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Men, Joy

  "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" by Joseph Campbell, New World Library, (Ch. 2), 1949.

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• Gina always believed there was magic in the world. "But it doesn't work in the way it does in fairy tales," she told me. "It doesn't save us. We have to save ourselves.

  Charles de Lint

  Magic In The World, Doe, Way

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• I was young, and by instinct of self-preservation I had to collect my energy on something, if I were not to be whirled away with the dusk on the farm-roads, or the smoke on the plain. I begun in the evenings to write stories, fairy-tales, and romances, that would take my mind a long way off, to other countries and times.

  Isak Dinesen

  Country, Writing, Self

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• They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil.

  Stephen King

  Beautiful, Evil, Enchantment

  Stephen King (2008). “Carrie”, p.103, Anchor

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