Hansel And Gretel Quotes

• 'Hansel and Gretel' is one of the scariest stories ever written! Psychotic mother; stupid, inane father.

  Maurice Sendak

  Mother, Father, Stupid

  "Bonus Material From Our Exclusive 'Where The Wild Things Are' Roundtable". Interview With Andrew Romano, www.newsweek.com. October 9, 2009.

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• Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

  H. G. Wells

  Fate, Journey, Way

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• Sometimes, you have to step outside of the person you've been and remember the person you were meant to be. The person you want to be. The person you are.

  H. G. Wells

  Want, Were Meant To Be, Steps

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• Soon Hansel and Gretel came to a little cottage. When they got quite near, they saw that the little house was made of bread and roofed with cake. The windows were transparent sugar." "There must not have been a very strict building code.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Cake, House, Cottages

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• We were as Hansel and Gretel and we ventured out into the black forest of the world.

  Patti Smith

  Black, World, Forests

  "Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe: Brainiac Amours in Just Kids" by Holly Cara Price, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 19, 2011.

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• Little kids' minds are very, very strong. They bend. There's a lot of tensile strength and they don't break. We start our kids off on things like "Hansel and Gretel," which features child abandonment, kidnapping, attempted murder, forcible detention, cannibalism, and finally murder by cremation. And the kids love it.

  Stephen King

  Strong, Children, Kids

  High Times Magazine Interview with Martha Thomases, John Robert Tebbel, October 1981.

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• once you lose yourself, you have two choices: find the person you used to be, or lose that person completely.

  H. G. Wells

  Two, Choices, One Tree Hill Love

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• We are like Hansel and Gretel, leaving bread crumbs of our personal information everywhere we travel through the digital woods.

  Gary Kovacs

  Leaving, Digital, Woods

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• You had to come back to learn how to lose yourself, to be pilot and stray-witch, Hansel and Gretel in one.

  Seamus Heaney

  Pilots, Witch, Losing Yourself

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.39, Macmillan

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• Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

  Caroline Stevermer

  Light, Safety, Return

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2012). “Sorcery & Cecelia: Or, The Enchanted Chocolate Pot”, p.69, Open Road Media

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• You see, Hansel and Gretel don’t just show up at the end of this story. They show up. And then they get their heads cut off. Just thought you’d like to know.

  Adam Gidwitz

  Cutting, Stories, Ends

  Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.143, Penguin

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• I've always thought it would be fun to update "Hansel and Gretel." I'd have these white parents in the suburbs with an income of fifty or sixty thousand dollars. Daddy loses his job, and the wicked stepmother says, "We could get along, we could keep our Mastercharge, if you'd just get rid of those shitty kids." Finally the father hires a limo and tells the driver, "Drop 'em off on Lenox Avenue in Harlem at two in the morning." These two little white kids land there. They're menaced. And this supposedly nice black lady says, "Would you like some candy?"

  Stephen King

  Morning, Jobs, Fun

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• Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.

  Sloane Crosley

  Sweet, Alaska, Together

  Sloane Crosley (2010). “How Did You Get This Number”, p.65, Penguin

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• Sometimes, when Bridget was in a particularly melodious mood, Sophie thought about stalking downstairs and pushing her into the oven like the with in 'Hansel and Gretel.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sophie, Pushing, Sometimes

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Luckily for you," he said, "you shed hairpins the way Hansel and Gretel shed crumbs. I followed your trail." He pressed a half dozen hairpins into the palm of my left hand. "Now let us return to light, safety, and society.

  Caroline Stevermer

  Light, Hands, Safety

  Patricia C. Wrede, Caroline Stevermer (2014). “The Cecelia and Kate Novels: Sorcery & Cecelia, The Grand Tour, and The Mislaid Magician”, p.70, Open Road Media

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• No real fairytale scared me, but Freddy Krueger did. 'Nightmare on Elm Street' scared the living hell out of me, but no fairytale. Maybe 'Hansel and Gretel' a little bit when they were walking through the forest and they met the witch. But I liked being scared, I really enjoy being scared.

  Lana Parrilla

  Real, Fairytale, Forests

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It seemed more and more like something out of a children's book - the butterfly that followed the little girl all the way home to her fifth-floor walk-up. How above-the-law children's books are. Hansel and Gretel (littering, breaking and entering), Rumpelstiltskin (forced labor), Snow White (conspiracy to commit murder), Rapunzel (breach of contract).

  Sloane Crosley

  Girl, Children, Book

  Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.115, Portobello Books

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