Quotes About Fairytales

All those Disney films have you believe that one day you'll meet your Prince Charming. What they don't tell you is he comes in a psychotic package without warning labels. He

All those Disney films have you believe that one day you'll meet your Prince Charming. What they don't tell you is he comes in a psychotic package without warning labels.

Take it away," she pointed at the green milk in a normal tone. "Anna and wife of Lir. Both must stay.

If I could have any job in the world I'd be a professional Cinderella.

they say that girls are the ones who want fairy tail endings, but then again, who are the authors of fairy tales? mostly men...

Aya Ling, The Ugly Stepsister

I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.

Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.

One day your prince will come. Mine took a wrong turn, got lost, and is too stubborn to ask for directions.

wondered, not for the first time, how exactly Snow White had managed to live with seven men without murdering at least one of them

I suppose this is for the best, Blay said into his shoulder. You can't cook. See? I'm so not Prince Charming.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.

I needed to go into that bare, with nothing from my own life on my body, the way woodcutters' children in fairy tales have to leave their protections behind to enter the enchanted castle; the way votaries in old religions used to go naked to their initiation rites.

Moterys trokšta pasakos. Aišku, ne visos, bet daugelis nuo vaikyst?s svajoja apie vyr?, kuris d?l j? b?t? pasiryž?s viskam, netgi žinodamas, kad gali likti pats ?skaudintas.

Maybe he suspected something, maybe he'd simply been around long enough to know that fairytales seldom came true

Here's a book about gnomes, undines, salamanders, elves, sylphs, fairies, but it, too, brings in the origins of Aryan civilization. The SS, apparently, are descended from the Seven Dwarfs.

The thing is, not every happily ever after needs to end with a Prince Charming

Words made faerie tales.

Once upon a time, a little girl was raised by monsters. But angels burned the doorways to their world, and she was all alone.

There were no books to hide behind, and no shadows—only Lazlo Strange in his worn gray robes, with his nose that had been broken by fairy tales, looking like the hero of no story ever told. Or. No story yet told.

Our own Sleeping Beauty. Who finally kissed you awake?

From that day forward she never used my name. Eventually I forgot it. Mrs. H called me something new. She named me cruel and smirking, she named me not for beauty or for cleverness or for sweetness. She named me a thing I could aspire to but never become, the one thing I was not and could never be: Snow White.

A Fairy must make her own way in the world, for the world will never make way for her. That, incidentally, is the First Theorem of Questing Physicks, which you'll learn all about when you're older and don't care anymore.

In Russian fairy tales, the narrative flows a little differently. In those stories, you won't find a tale for Cinderella, one for Snow White, one for Rapunzel. Instead, a peculiar cast of characters recurs over and over, in nearly every story, performing different acts and suffering different sorrows, but remaining the same. Ivan the Fool. Yelena the Bright. Baba Yaga. Vasilisa the Brave. Koschei the Deathless.