Fairy Quotes - Page 34

• The truth is that when one is still a child-or even if one is grown up- and has been well fed, and has slept long and softly and warm; when one has gone to sleep in the midst of a fairy story, and has wakened to find it real, one cannot be unhappy or even look as if one were; and one could not, if one tried, keep a glow of joy out of one's eyes.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Children, Real, Sleep

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “A Little Princess”, p.137, Xist Publishing

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• Because I am still a little girl who believes in Santa and the tooth fairy and you.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Girl, Believe, Teeth

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• That's the thing about being the product of happily marries parents, You grow up thinking the fairy tale is real, and more than that, you think you're entitled to live it. So far, though, it wasn't working out as planned.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Growing Up, Real, Thinking

  "The Choice". Book by Nicholas Sparks, September 24, 2007.

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• Looking from the window at the fantastic light and colour of my glittering fairy-world of fact that holds no tenderness, no quietude, I long suddenly for peace, for understanding.

  Daphne du Maurier

  Light, Long, Understanding

  Daphne Du Maurier (2012). “The Birds And Other Stories”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• I don’t think I am like other people. I mean on some deep fundamental level. It’s not just being half a twin and reading a lot and seeing fairies. It’s not just being outside when they’re all inside. I used to be inside. I think there’s a way I stand aside and look backwards at things when they’re happening which isn’t normal.

  Jo Walton

  Reading, Mean, Thinking

  Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.169, Macmillan

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• That's the fairy tale. You meet, you fall in love, you kiss, and neither of you is revolted by it. You get married and have kids and live happily ever after.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Falling In Love, Love You, Kids

  Sarah Addison Allen (2011). “The Peach Keeper: A Novel”, p.86, Bantam

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• Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.

  Gena Showalter

  Romance, Fairy Tale, Online

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.160, HQN Books

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• How I keep trying to force our story into a fairy tale, but from the beginning, it's been more like a nursery rhyme." "Bizarre and adorable?" "Just like you." "With rings in your pockets and bells on your toes" "Ooh, I should really invest in some toes bells.

  Shannon Hale

  Nurse, Adorable, Trying

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• Somehow the idea of Montgomery as a fairy doesn't have the same effect on me as it appears to have on you. -Raphael

  Nalini Singh

  Ideas, Raphael, Effects

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• It’s just that you go so crazy being alone like that. Sometimes he’d forget my water or food and I’d cry and cry and cry.” She stops talking and looks out the window. “I would try to tell myself stories to pass the time. Fairy tales. Parts of books. But they got used up.

  Holly Black

  Crazy, Book, Talking

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• Most humans were on one big island, to the fairies, and that island was adrift on a sea called I Totally Don’t Care.

  Charlaine Harris

  Islands, Sea, Care

  Charlaine Harris (2011). “Dead Reckoning: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.75, Penguin

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• The Wizard Of Oz" has secrets that are just too much. Or "Peter Pan" – the whole 'lost boys' thing is just incredible. They’re not childlike at all, they’re really, really deep; you can rule your life by them. Or say 'child-like', because children are the most brilliant people of all, that’s why they relate to those stories so well. Fairy-tales are wonderful.

  Michael Jackson

  Children, Boys, People

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• Hersesy is denying the word of God, and the word of God is much more reliably expressed in the natural world as it’s revealed through reason and science than in what I have heard described wonderfully as “the giant book of Jewish fairy stories".

  Iain Banks

  Book, Fairy Stories, Giants

  "Sci-Fi Writer Iain Banks Talks Surface Detail's Hell, Creationist Heresy". Interview with Michael Parsons, www.wired.com. October 15, 2010.

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• That means life itself is a fairy tale. Like the characters, we all live and love and search for a happily-ever-after.

  Gena Showalter

  Character, Mean, And Love

  Gena Showalter (2014). “Lords of the Underworld Collection 1: The Darkest Night\The Darkest Kiss\The Darkest Pleasure”, p.272, Harlequin

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• Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman

  Dawn French

  Women, Cowboy, Forever

  Dawn French (2010). “A Tiny Bit Marvellous”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give you my word, Gabrielle O'Callaghan," it said softly. "I will protect you." "Right. The word of the blackest fairy, the legendary liar, the great deceiver," she mocked. How dare it offer its word like it might actually mean something? A muscle leapt in its jaw. "That is not all I have been, Gabrielle. I have been, and am, many things." "Oh, of course, silly me, I left out consummate seducer and ravager of innocence.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Liars, Silly, Mean

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.70, Delacorte Press

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• Remember all fairy tales end at some point.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Fairy Tale, Remember, Ends

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• Most kids don't believe in fairy tales very long. Once they hit six or seven they put away "Cinderella" and her shoe fetish, "The Three Little Pigs" with their violation of building codes, "Miss Muffet" and her well‐shaped tuffet—all forgotten or discounted.And maybe that's the way it has to be. To survive in the world, you have to give up the fantasies, the make‐believe.

  Rob Thurman

  Giving Up, Believe, Kids

  Rob Thurman (2006). “Nightlife”, p.10, Penguin

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• Philosophy is the opposite of fairy tales

  Jostein Gaarder

  Philosophy, Opposites, Fairy Tale

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• If both Church and fairy-tale belong to humanity, they may occasionally cross circles, without injury to either.

  George MacDonald

  Circles, Humanity, Church

  George MacDonald (2015). “George MacDonald: The Complete Fantasy Collection - 8 Novels & 30+ Short Stories and Fairy Tales (Illustrated): The Princess and the Goblin, Lilith, Phantastes, The Princess and Curdie, At the Back of the North Wind, Portent, The Lost Princess, Adela Cathcart, Dealings with the Fairies and many more”, p.1671, e-artnow

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• Breaking things is a specialty of everyone in Fairy Tail

  Hiro Mashima

  Tails, Breaking Things, Specialty

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• Like stepping into a fairy tale under a curtain of stars.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Stars, Fairy Tale, Tales

  Erin Morgenstern (2016). “The Night Circus”, p.147, Random House

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• I'd been right from the start - soulmates were for fairy tales. In real life, people were just people, and they couldn't be trusted.

  Hilary Duff

  Soulmate, Real, People

  Hilary Duff (2012). “Devoted: An Elixir Novel”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• The world was full of dangers now that she was pregnant: mercury in tuna, hot tubs, beer, secondhand smoke, over-the-counter medicine. Not to mention crazy baby-abducting fairy kings.

  Jennifer McMahon

  Baby, Kings, Crazy

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• There weren’t any fairy tales in the streets around me. If there was ever a Cinderella, her glass slippers shattered under her weight and she limped home bleeding from the ball.

  Mira Grant

  Home, Glasses, Balls

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