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• When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

  C. S. Lewis

  Fear, Children, Growing Up

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• No, I don't think you understand just how stupid goblins are. Let me give you an example. One of the B'wa Kell generals, and this is their top fairy, was caught caught trying to pass off forged credit slips by signing his own name.

  Eoin Colfer

  Stupid, Thinking, Names

  Eoin Colfer (2002). “Artemis Fowl: the arctic incident”, Viking

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• Some said the original evil was the vacuum caused by the Fairy Queen Lurline leaving us alone here. When goodness removes itself, the space it occupies corrodes and becomes evil and maybe slpits apart and multiplies. So every evil thing is a sign of the absence of deity

  Gregory Maguire

  Queens, Space, Evil

  Gregory Maguire (2013). “The Wicked Years Complete Collection: Wicked, Son of a Witch, A Lion Among Men, and Out of Oz”, p.82, Harper Collins

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• 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!

  Lewis Carroll

  Here I Am, Wonderland, Fairy Tale

  Lewis Carroll (2010). “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Every fairy tale, it seems, concludes with the bland phrase "happily ever after." Yet every couple I have ever known would agree that nothing about marriage is forever happy. There are moments of bliss, to be sure, and lengthy spans of satisfied companionship. Yet these come at no small effort, and the girl who reads such fiction dreaming her troubles will end ere she departs the altar is well advised to seek at once a rational women to set her straight.

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  Girl, Dream, Couple

  Catherine Gilbert Murdock (2009). “Princess Ben”, p.338, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Canada is a myth people made up to entertain children, like the Tooth Fairy. There’s no such place.

  Christopher Moore

  Children, People, Teeth

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• One of my heroes, G.K. Chesterton, said, "The old fairy tales endure forever. The old fairy tale makes the hero a normal human boy; it is his adventures that are startling; they startle him because he is normal." Discovering that the modern world can still contain the wonder and strangeness of a fairy tale is part of what my novels are about.

  Regina Doman

  Hero, Adventure, Boys

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• The old tale of Sleeping Beauty might end happily in French or English, but he was in Russia, and only a fool would want to live through the Russian version of any fairy tale.

  Orson Scott Card

  Sleep, Russia, Want

  Orson Scott Card (2005). “Enchantment”, p.77, Del Rey

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• And our lady friend, she thinks life works like a fairy tale.' Well, that’s harmless, isn’t it?' Yeah, but in fairy tales, when someone dies... it’s just a word.

  Terry Pratchett

  Thinking, Fairy Tale, Yeah

  Terry Pratchett (2008). “The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents: (Discworld Novel 28)”, p.87, Random House

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• Vlad had found himself longing to encounter those of his own kind, to travel to the streets of Elysia-that far away world, but after a while it seemed more of a fairy tale than anything else. Like Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy, only with fangs.

  Heather Brewer

  Encounters, Teeth, Elysium

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• None of [the books are] worth reading. There are no fairy tales, no faerie tails, no sword-swinging princesses or lightning-throwing gods.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Book, Princess, Reading

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• Everything in creation has its appointed painter or poet and remains in bondage like the princess in the fairy tale 'til its appropriate liberator comes to set it free.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Princess, Poetry

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• A large section of the idling classes of England get their incomes by believing that Jesus was born of a virgin and that Jonah swallowed a whale; and with the progress of science they were naturally finding this more and more difficult. A school of ingenious Bible-twisters arose, to invent symbolical and literary meanings for fairy tales, in order that people who no longer believed could continue with good conscience to collect the salaries of belief.

  Upton Sinclair

  Jesus, Believe, School

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• The reason that stepmothers are often the bad guy in fairy tales is because people died in childbirth, all the time, so fathers remarried and there would be a struggle between the children and the new wife, in terms of who would inherit what.

  Chris Weitz

  Children, Father, Struggle

  Source: collider.com

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• I had to create a children's show, because we wanted the money - and it was, interestingly enough, the first project at the Angel Island theatre space. We did the show, an adaptation of Grimm's Fairy Tales. It was hardcore Grimm - nothing was sanitized - and it was called 'The Mary-Arrchie Kid's Show.' It was well-received, and so I applied to do it through Urban Gateways in Chicago.

  Richard Cotovsky

  Children, Kids, Angel

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I believe that my parents helped me to keep my natural psychic abilities open. I think most kids see angels or fairies, and because my parents were such open people, I kept that alive.

  Doreen Virtue

  Believe, Kids, Angel

  Interview with Lindsay McGinty, www.fourcornersmagazine.com. December 21, 2010.

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• The religions are the buildings or the institutions, the groups, but inside of that is what moves, is what's alive, is the beating heart of spirituality, and really, the heart's blood is the mystical experience. Not airy fairy vague mystical experience, but transformative, intimate experience that really touches your heart with love, and not just sex.

  Surya Das

  Sex, Moving, Heart

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Many fairy tales and ballads present us with animals who are nobler, truer, and kinder than the greedy human beings who desire to possess them. I guess I tend to read these stories as very early (and possibly unconscious) feminist texts.

  Delia Sherman

  Animal, Feminist, Desire

  Source: www.sfsignal.com

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• When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

  Noel Fielding

  Children, Grandmother, Garden

  "The Weird World of Noel Fielding". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 2, 2016.

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• In college, I became interested in folk tales and fairy tales. Gradually I became more and more interested in the underlying meaning of it all and the possibility of the reality of real fairies.

  Brian Froud

  Real, College, Fairy Tale

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Naming a fairy is notoriously difficult, because they don't particularly like to be named. There are so many of them, and humans have always wanted to categorize them. In that way, we think we can have more control over them.

  Brian Froud

  Thinking, Way, Difficult

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country, and immediately I started to paint fairies and trolls.

  Brian Froud

  Country, Jobs, Troll

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Part of what I feel is that the so-called bad fairies are really only there to get you to pay some attention. They trick you up until you're lying flat on your back and you literally have another point of view. They're about loosening up being rigid. They trip you over to break the barrier between you and the world. So their so-called "badness" actually can be quite instrumental in helping you with things.

  Brian Froud

  Lying, Views, Attention

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Once you step onto the fairy path, it's almost like there's no way off. You have to keep going.

  Brian Froud

  Way, Path, Steps

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Fairies are becoming much more popular. I see fairyland as this big sea, and the tide is sometimes out.

  Brian Froud

  Sea, Tides, Becoming

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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