Quotes About Storybook

Just the other day I said to Fang, "Don't you think we've got a storybook romance?" and he said, "Yes, and every page is ripped.

This is surely the most significant of the elements that Tolkien brought to fantasy.... his arranged marriage between the Elder Edda and "The Wind in the Willows"--big Icelandic romance and small-scale, cozy English children's book. The story told by "The Lord of the Rings" is essentially what would happen if Mole and Ratty got drafted into the Nibelungenlied.

It was like a storybook: her life was being written for her. She did not have to write it, only just to read it. The pages were being turned for her, too

Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires and fogs in the valleys; cellos, dark windowpanes, snow.

I always wanted to be a princess like Cinderella.

Shut up the door: who loves me must not look / Upon the withered world, but haste to bring / His lighted candle, and his story-book, / And live with me the poetry of spring.

You want a storybook kind of closure with someone when they die, but I think that kind of thing is impossible.

The shapes arranged themselves into words, and the words spelled out a delicious and wonderful phrase: Once upon a time.

The princess smiled at Despereaux again, and this time, Despereaux smiled back. And then, something incredible happened: The mouse fell in love.

I had ridiculous amounts of energy. Mom's like, you're driving me crazy - do you want to try gymnastics? From the moment I started it, I loved it and it kind of was like storybook from there.

Life is a storybook. Our stories depend on what happens and what doesn't; what we know and what we don't; what we forget and why. That's what makes telling the truth so tricky. Because the past never stays still: it keeps changing into the future.

My life is a fairy tale. You could not make it up.

My life has been nothing short of a fairy tale.

I loved fairy tales growing up.

Like you see in the fairy tales, that's how it planned out in my head. Kids, little white picket fence, the American dream.

The only thing true about what you just said was the storybook damsel part - and that only because you're pretty enough to be one.

L. Frank Baum

In the loneliness of ????, one thinks longingly of ????. Memories of ???? threw an even sharper ???? across their lives. And yet the memories had come to seem like something out of a storybook. There was no avoiding the ???? that, around the ???? ?????, everything took on an ?????? of fiction.

The only thing true about what you just said was the storybook damsel part—and that's only because you're pretty enough to be one. Not the distress thing. Everything else you just said was ridiculous. You're not helpless.

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.

I think we ought to live happily ever after," and she thought he meant it. Sophie knew that living happily ever after with Howl would be a good deal more hair-raising than any storybook made it sound, though she was determined to try. "It should be hair-raising," added Howl. "And you'll exploit me," Sophie said. "And then you'll cut up all my suits to teach me.

The quest of the handsome prince was complete. He had found his fair maiden and the world had its fairytale.

When you're a little girl, you kind of gravitate towards all of the princesses and things.

Thy loving smile will surely hail The love-gift of a fairy tale.