Quotes About Fairytales

It's just that in detective stories, women are usually dead before the curtain goes up. In fairy tales, they're usually alive. Fairy tales are about survival. That's all they're about. The princess lives to get married in the last act. The detective solves the woman; the knight saves her. And really, really , when you put a fairy tale together with grime and despair and industrial angst you get the Gothic, and that's where we live, Percy.

Didn't you know? All stepmothers are witches. It is our compensation for remaining forever an intruder in another woman's house.

What happens to the West happens to Snow White, which is to say they both turn into jokes.

Maybe [Snow White] never wakes up. More likely than anything else, really. You can't kiss a girl into anything.

You are a Witch. I am a Prince. In all the books, where there is a Witch and a Prince there is a way.

Snow White gets a Social Security card. She gets a job building houses out in California. Picks oranges.

She knew very well what became of Princesses, as Princesses often get books written about them. Either terrible things happened to them, such as kidnappings and curses and pricking fingers and getting poisoned and locked up in towers, or else they just waited around till the Prince finished with the story and got around to marrying her. Either way, September wanted nothing to do with Princessing

The Heart of Fairyland is a story

Happily ever after, like in the books,

You know, one of my biggest dreams in life is to play a Disney princess.

I want to cover all areas that can be depicted visually. This ranges from fairytales to attempts to enter the abstract and view oneself as a social outcast or someone struggling to stay alive.

Fairies glitter our hearts with giggles.

And the ending was as she expected it to be . . . and they all lived happily ever after. She wondered about happily ever after. Did it exist only in fairy tales, in stories for children? Or was there hope, really?

I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending.

At no point do I ever remember taking religion very seriously or even feeling that the biblical stories were any different from fairy stories. Certainly, none of it made any sense. By comparison, the world in which I lived, though I might not always understand it in all aspects, always made a lot of sense.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

My mother says happy ever after's a bunch of bull.

The same as real life, there is no happily ever after.

The deep truths of a good story, especially fairy tales, cannot be revealed through discursive analysis—otherwise, why tell the story?

Recollections of early childhood bear comparison to fairy tales, and ... youth remains an unknown country to whose bourn no traveler returns except as the agent of a foreign power.

Por cada lobo parlante que es un príncipe encantado hay por lo menos cien que son lobos de verdad. Y ni todo el amor del mundo es capaz de cambiar esa circunstancia.

In the books she read, every stream might be a river god, every tree a dryad in disguise, every old woman a powerful fairy, every pebble an enchanted soul. Anything had the potential to transform, and this, to her, seemed the true meaning of art.

As one gets older, the story of Hansel and Gretel becomes more interesting only when told from the point of view of the witch.

But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.