Fairy Tale Literature Quotes

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ABOUT SENTIMENTALITY IN LITERATURE:
"Sentimental fiction is a kind of pablum: Excessive amounts can spoil the appetite for reality, or at least for more fibrous forms of art. One reason, surely, why readers throw down books when they don't contain sufficiently "likable" characters is that their tolerance for any sort of moral challenge - for being asked, say, to sympathize with homeless little boys who are godless and truculent and a bit smelling - has been eroded by too many fairy tales masquerading as adult literature."~ wrote Zoe Heller for Bookends in the Sunday's NY Times Book Review interview ~ Alice Simpson
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Alice  Simpson
I just can't get with this idea that literature is a 12-step program. If someone wants to read a book to see good people get rewarded and the bad people get punished, essentially what they want is a fairy tale. ~ China Mieville
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by China Mieville
What manly task may I perform for you?"
"If you care for me at all, you'll slay a dragon."
"Such a simple task to prove my devotion? For you, I will gladly take up this quest. Why, by the age of ten, I had already felled my first ogre. ~ Betsy Schow
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Betsy Schow
I've got the perfect dress. It's going to knock your socks off."
Marcus wasn't sure if that was good or bad, but he couldn't wait to find out. ~ Deborah Blake
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Deborah Blake
A trail made of pine needles and thistles leads you into the green darkness. The canopy casts shadows on old oaks and dogwoods, and you think you can smell the sour breath of a witch behind you. The wind sighs like a sleeping girl, carrying her bittersweet dreams along the paths to attract any man willing to look for thorn-covered castles. A wolf darts between fallen, rotted wood; maybe he's the one who can tell you where your heart is, how you're still breathing. ~ Kimberly Karalius
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Kimberly Karalius
Your love story was no fairy tale. More like a witch tale. Wicked and real and painful. ~ L.J. Shen
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by L.J. Shen
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
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Amanda Seyfried
Only the fairy tale equates changelessness with happiness ... Permanence means paralysis and death. Only, in movement, with all its pain, is life. ~ Jacob Burckhardt
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Jacob Burckhardt
Don't you think it's best that you stay away from mortals? You know they break so easily these days. ~ Kimberly Spencer
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Kimberly Spencer
There it was again - the perverse refusal to acknowledge my hostility. She seemed to me like some magical lake in a fairy tale: nothing could disturb the mirror-calm of her surface. My snide comments and bitter jokes disappeared soundlessly into her depths, leaving not so much as a ripple. ~ Zoe Heller
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Zoe Heller
Quite often you drive me mad, but more often I'm just mad about you. And that darling, that's the best love there is. ~ Crystal Woods
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Crystal Woods
I was born and raised in Ohio. During my childhood, I spent most of my time drawing and reading fairy tales and myths. ~ Natalie Babbitt
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Natalie Babbitt
Sometimes you have to censor books. When I read 'Peter Rabbit,' I skip the part about Peter's father ending up in one of Mrs. McGregor's pies. I also hid the book of 'Grimm Fairy Tales.' They're just too grim for my grandkids. Reality will come soon enough. ~ Regina Brett
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Regina Brett
We'll hop home, as we hares have done since time immemorial. ~ Leen Lefebre
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Leen Lefebre
These are challenges," Jack told her. "That's it. We are going to win. You know why? Because it doesn't matter if you're in a fairy tale or here in real life, doing the right thing still counts for something. We're going to win because we're good, decent people trying to accomplish something noble. ~ James Riley
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by James Riley
But how wonderful when the tale is told,
And the message that is meant for us
Opens like the scents of a mountain flower! ~ Mazisi Kunene
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Mazisi Kunene
life wasn't a fairy tale and there were instances when one couldn't have everything one wanted, not at the same time. As ~ Kate Morton
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Kate Morton
The fairy tale that really scared me was Bluebeard. That's the one where he just kills one after another of these woman, these wives, that he lures up to the castle. I just think about fairy tales as stories women told their children to warn them? To keep them safe, to make sure they married up, all the things that would have safeguarded them in the olden days. ~ Meryl Streep
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Meryl Streep
Fairy tales are my natural language. I feel at ease telling fairy tales like a fish feels in water. I am totally free. ~ Michel Ocelot
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Michel Ocelot
Yet what keeps me from dissolving right now into a complete fairy-tale shimmer is this solid truth, a truth which has veritably built my bones over the last few years
I was not rescued by a prince; I was the administrator of my own rescue. ~ Elizabeth Gilbert
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Elizabeth Gilbert
Yet the greening grasses and overarching elms and oaks, just beginning to come into leaf, gave the scene a picturesque air, like a fairy-tale dwelling; ~ Joyce Carol Oates
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Joyce Carol Oates
Houellebecq has created a new genre - the dystopian conversion tale. Submission is not the story some expected of an armed coup d'état, and no one in it expresses hatred or even contempt of Muslims. At one level it is simply about a man who through suffering and indifference finds himself slouching toward Mecca. At another level, though, it is about a civilization that after centuries of a steady, almost imperceptible sapping of inner conviction finds itself doing the same thing. The literature of civilizational decline, to which Zemmour's Le Suicide français is a minor contribution, is typically brash and breathless. Not so Submission. There is not even drama here - no clash of spiritual armies, no martyrdom, no final conflagration. Stuff just happens, as in all Houellebecq's fiction. All one hears at the end is a bone-chilling sigh of collective relief. The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. Whatever. ~ Mark Lilla
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Mark Lilla
She is a figure of legend and fairy tale, one to be taken seriously, or she might knock you off your feet with a quick whirl of the staff she carries everywhere. ~ Claire Wong
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Claire Wong
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail. ~ Lord Byron
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Lord Byron
I grew up thinking that they were a fairy tale, you know? It turns out they were just like anyone else. Somehow that makes it even more magical. ~ Kiera Cass
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Kiera Cass
I think dreams can come true, but not necessarily like fairy-tales. It's not always so perfect like that. ~ Patrick Dempsey
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Patrick Dempsey
I squared my shoulders, trying to ignore the fact that I was standing in the apartment of the sea witch, wearing a fairy-tale prom gown, waiting for the attack of the mermaids. ~ Seanan McGuire
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Seanan McGuire
You once told me that I make you believe in the impossible. You make me believe in love, which I'd given up on. Thank you for proving to me it's not just a fairy tale. ~ Simone Elkeles
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Simone Elkeles
To hunt for symbols in a fairy tale is absolutely fatal. ~ W. H. Auden
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by W. H. Auden
Maybe there aren't any happily ever afters, or white knights who ride in on valiant steeds to save the day. Maybe, in real life, Prince Charming isn't always perfect – he's just as flawed as everyone else in the tale. And that princess, alone in her tower? She's not perfect either. Birds don't braid her hair every morning, she can't serenade wild forest creatures into servitude, and she doesn't even own a ball gown. But she's also smart enough to know not to accept poisoned apples from strangers, or prick her finger on deadly spindles.

She doesn't wait around for a prince to charge in and slay the dragon. Maybe she saves herself and in the end, rides off into her own goddamned sunset. ~ Julie Johnson
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Julie   Johnson
I'm not saying there aren't a few who marry the guy for his money. There are, but I believe there are more of us who marry because we grew up believing in the fairy tale, and no one ever told us it was a lie. ~ Kristin Billerbeck
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Kristin Billerbeck
When I was younger, I had this fairy tale that you can have the eight hours of sleep and be a healthy, balanced person and still achieve your goals. The reality is, that hasn't always been the case. ~ Lilly Singh
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Lilly Singh
I grow old, I grow old, the center will not fold. In youth I had hardening of the categories and looked for the father and the mother in every lover. Then I cracked. Then I fragmented. Then the old man in my soul found the god in herself, not in some Jungian fairy tale but in the flesh that fell from the bones and the words that came into my mouth when the look went out of their eyes. ~ Jennifer Stone
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Jennifer Stone
Soft sun shone down on a misty cathedral at the opposite end of a football-field length courtyard. The cathedral had a long pointed tower with beautiful rose and ivory stained glass windows. Pink-petal flowers and deep green ivy climbed the stones from the ground to it's roof. A large fountain stood in the middle of the courtyard with water falling from several lion's heads. Between the misty air and rolling slope of the earth, the grounds reminded me of a long lost fairy tale. ~ Priya Ardis
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Priya Ardis
Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history! ~ Charles Lamb
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Charles Lamb
Polyamory can feel threatening because it upsets our fairy-tale assumption that the right partner will keep us safe from change. Polyamory introduces the prospect of chaos and uncertainty into what's supposed to be a straightforward progression to bliss. But a healthy relationship must first of all be resilient, able to respond to the changes and complexity life brings. Nor is happiness actually a state of being. It is a process, a side effect of doing other things. The fairy tale tells us that with the right partner, happiness just happens. But happiness is something we re-create every day. And it comes more from our outlook than from the things around us. ~ Franklin Veaux
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Franklin Veaux
Love isn't a fairy tale.

It's messy.

It's dirty.

It's painful, and it's ugly.

Until it's not.... ~ Jordan Marie
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Jordan Marie
Trial Is Part of the Journey For a moment, think back about your favorite fairy tale. In that story the main character may be a princess or a peasant; she might be a mermaid or a milkmaid, a ruler or a servant. You will find one thing all have in common: they must overcome adversity. ~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Dieter F. Uchtdorf
You don't want to miss the love that's perfect for you because you're too busy searching for a fairy tale. ~ Rachel Fordham
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Rachel Fordham
Think for a minute, darling: in fairy tales it's always the children who have the fine adventures. The mothers have to stay at home and wait for the children to fly in the window. ~ Audrey Niffenegger
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Audrey Niffenegger
Why could he not have chosen some other woman? Why Avelina? But he knew why. It was because she had seemed good and kind and had expressed her thoughts without any false pride or pretense. He had admired her forthrightness and her compassion. And although he had never thought of a wife with strong opinions was a good thing, he actually found he liked her opinions-or at least admired her for having them. He wanted to get to know her, to know everything that was in her heart. He wanted to marry her and, surprising even himself, to love her. ~ Melanie Dickerson
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Melanie Dickerson
I stamped my foot and pointed more forcefully. "Off with you. Courtyard's that way. Be sure to clean those awful boots before coming back in."

"Someone told me I'd find a princess of great worth here.

One with the strength to be the hero this realm needs." He stared at me with those unsettling blue eyes. They were cold, like ice water - made me shiver from head to toe. Then his gaze seemed to search even deeper. Finally, he looked through me, like I was nothing. "It seems she was mistaken. ~ Betsy Schow
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Betsy Schow
There were also books of fairy tales, The Arabian Nights, James Payn's work, Anthony Trollope's Vicar of Bullhampton, Thomas Hardy's Desperate Remedies, a pile of Wilkie Collins - The New Magdalen, The Law and the Lady, The Two Destinies, and a new Jules Verne novel titled Child of the Cavern that she itched to get her hands on. And then, there it was - A Tale of Two Cities. ~ Cassandra Clare
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Cassandra Clare
Want to start a fairy-tale romance with me? BTW it might be doomed, k? ~ Cara Lynn Shultz
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by Cara Lynn Shultz
My Prince Charming turned out to be the villain of my fairy tale. ~ J.M. Darhower
Fairy Tale Literature quotes by J.M. Darhower
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