Fairy Tale Quotes - Page 21

• In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Night, Lasts, Villain

  Lisa Kleypas (2009). “Tempt Me at Twilight”, p.142, Macmillan

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• When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he's everything you ever wanted. In fairy tales the bad guy is very easy to spot. The bad guy is always wearing a black cape so you always know who he is. Then you grow up and you realize that Prince Charming is not as easy to find as you thought. You realize the bad guy is not wearing a black cape and he's not easy to spot; he's really funny, and he makes you laugh, and he has perfect hair.

  Taylor Swift

  Girl, Growing Up, Hair

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• 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.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Scary, Found, Tales

  www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?" It took him a minute. "Yes," he said finnally. "It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her." Oh? What?" I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on." Lucy didn't laugh. "Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works.

  Nancy Werlin

  Running, Baby, Thinking

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• You must learn to know the difference between tales and the truth, my Liza, she would say. Fairy tales have a habit of ending too soon. They never show what happens afterwards when the prince and princess ride off the page.

  Kate Morton

  Life, Princess, Differences

  Kate Morton (2009). “The Forgotten Garden: A Novel”, p.122, Simon and Schuster

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• She felt as if she had strayed into a fairy tale, as full of peril as of wonder, a place where anything could happen.

  Kate Forsyth

  Wonder, Peril, Tales

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• The people in this house, I felt, and I included myself, were like characters each from a different grim and gruesome fairy tale. None of us was in the same story. We were all grotesques, and self-riveted, but in separate narratives, and so our interactions seemed weird and richly meaningless, like the characters in a Tennessee Williams play, with their bursting unimportant, but spell-bindingly mad speeches.

  Lorrie Moore

  Character, Self, Play

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• I did translations of Grimms' Fairy Tales and became very charmed about that way of looking at things. Fairy tales tell a lot of truths. Just as a side point, for instance, we always think the bad guys in fairy tales are the stepmothers, who are witches. But where are the fathers when the witches are killing and mishandling their children? Away. They are on a business trip. They are hunting, they are away. Wow, you know! No one says the fathers are the bad guys! It's one of the things you don't say. But my goodness, where are they?

  Lore Segal

  Children, Father, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• 'Snow White' is an old fairy tale, so obviously the idea of vanity and obsession with youth is long-standing. With today's science, people have become crazy with trying to move their face around. It's bizarre.

  Julia Roberts

  Crazy, Moving, Vanity

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• There is the great lesson of 'Beauty and the Beast,' that a thing must be loved before it is lovable.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Lessons, Fairytale, Beast

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• Happiness, you see, its just an illusion of Fate, a heavenly sleight of hand designed to make you believe in fairy tales. But there's no happily ever after. You'll only find happy endings in books. Some books.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Happiness, Believe, Book

  Ellen Hopkins (2008). “Burned”, p.420, Simon and Schuster

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• What I like about fairy tales is the language and the matter-of-fact way of introducing magic, where it's accepted that a fox could talk or a gate could just appear in a wall. I think fairy tales are so psychological.

  Alice Hoffman

  Wall, Thinking, Magic

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• ...which fairy-tale princess ever chose her maid over her prince?

  Kate Morton

  Princess, Maids, Tales

  Kate Morton (2010). “The Forgotten Garden”, p.495, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• The fairy tale always takes place in worlds that are between, unidentifiable.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  World, Tales, Fairy

  "The GQ&A: Drive Director Nicolas Winding Refn". Interview with Sean Fennessey, www.gq.com. September 12, 2011.

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• 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.

  Victoria Aveyard

  Smile, Girl, Princess

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• I had become so quiet and so small in the grass by the pond that I was barely noticeable, hardly there... I sat there watching their living room shining out of the dark beside the pond. It looked like a fairy tale functioning happily in the post-World War II gothic of America before television crippled the imagination of America and turned people indoors and away from living out their own fantasies with dignity... Anyway, I just kept getting smaller and smaller beside the pond, more and more unnoticed in the darkening summer grass until I disappeared into the 32 years that have passed since then.

  Richard Brautigan

  Summer, War, Dark

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• [Fairy tales] are like a journey to the woods and the many ways you can get lost. Some people say it's not a good idea to read fairy tales to anyone under the age of eight because they are brutal and raw. When I was a kid I often felt that kids's books were speaking down to me, but I never felt that way about fairy tales. They are bloody and scary, but so is life.

  Alice Hoffman

  Book, Kids, Journey

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• And Death spoke to them —’” “Sorry,” interjected Harry, “but Death spoke to them?” “It’s a fairy tale, Harry!” “Right, sorry. Go on.

  J. K. Rowling

  Sorry, Goes On, Spokes

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• Infuriatingly stupid analysts - especially people who called themselves Arabists, yet who seemed to know next to nothing about the reality of the Islamic world - wrote reams of commentary [after 9/11]. Their articles were all about Islam saving Aristotle and the zero, which medieval Muslim scholars had done more than eight hundred years ago; about Islam being a religion of peace and tolerance, not the slightest bit violent. These were fairy tales, nothing to do with the real world I knew.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Zero, Real, Stupid

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• I love fairy tales and feel very affected by them.

  Alice Hoffman

  Tales, Feels, Affected

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I find myself fascinated by a man who admits to enjoying fairy tales and uses the word "impinge"- barely misses a beat while indulging in a brief girl-on-girl fantasy. You're a man of layers, Ford." Me and Shrek, we're onions.

  Nora Roberts

  Girl, Men, Missing

  Nora Roberts (2008). “Tribute”, p.208, Penguin

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• I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale. We should not allow it to be believed that all scientific progress can be reduced to mechanisms, machines, gearings, even though such machinery has its own beauty.

  Marie Curie

  Children, Science, Thinking

  "Madame Curie: A Biography". Book by Eve Curie Labouisse translated by Vincent Sheean, 1937.

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• She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.

  Laini Taylor

  Stars, Apples, Swans

  Laini Taylor (2011). “Daughter of Smoke and Bone: Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.79, Hachette UK

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• Sure, I love fairy tales.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Doubt, Atheism, Tales

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• The old fairy tales are very, very violent, and these days I think we could do with a little less of it.

  Julie Andrews

  Angel, Thinking, Littles

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