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Quotes About Fairytales

Once upon a time, when she still believed that somewhere, out there, was a man who would love her. Once upon a time, when young girl's dreams came true and happily ever after was just within reach.
~ Unknown
Ballet was full of dark fairy tales, and how a dancer prepared her pointe shoes was a ritual as mysterious and private as how she might pleasure herself. It was often indistinguishable.
~ Megan Abbott
Before you enter the forest, you must leave your mind outside, because in the land of fairy tales there is no need for it!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Your mind is your spirit; do not seek any other hidden soul inside you! All is in the brain! The depiction of a spirit rising to the sky is no more real than a medieval Scandinavian fairytales!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Because if I have a wicked stepmother and two evil stepsisters, aren't I supposed to get a prince?
~ Melissa Kantor
Sabrina turned back to the house and saw the horrible truth- a pair of legs was sticking out from beneath it and they were wearing a pari of shiny silver shoes with a remarkable red tint to them. She suddenly realized they hadn't just entered a story. They had entered one of the most famous stories ever told. "Daphne, I don't think we're in Ferryport Landing anymore.
~ Michael Buckley
2. At the very end of Little Red Riding Hood, the wolf's stomach is filled with a. Granny's famous chicken wings b. Granny c. absolutely nothing
~ Michael Buckley
4. The Evil Sorceress who finds Hansel and Gretel plans to a. feed them her leftovers forever b. make them clean her house all day long c. hold them hostage until their parents pay for them d. eat them
~ Michael Buckley
old woman said just as the machine let out a loud honking sound that could only be described as a fart. "Just as I thought, it's from a giant beanstalk.
~ Michael Buckley
The little girl in the red cloak who had taken her parents was Little Red Riding Hood!
~ Michael Buckley
All learned people learn Latin. It's bound to come in useful. Fairy tales, on the other hand, are about real life.
~ Monica Furlong
Obviously, I need to study princesses further.
~ Nalini Singh
Nu po?i s? vezi zâne dac? nu e?ti z?natic.
~ Unknown
people needed to be turned into frogs. Or pigs.
~ Patricia Briggs
Fee, fie, foe, fum, I smell the blood of an Englishman. Be he alive or be he dead, I'll grind his bones to make my bread."   Ballimore shook her head. "Nonsense, dear. It's just Princess Cimorene and the King of the Enchanted Forest." "And neither of us is English," Cimorene added.
~ Patricia C. Wrede
Fairytales are true. The wolf is big and bad and I am talking to him right here and now. I
~ Paul Kearney
I'll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... were not perfect in the beginning. It's only a happy ending on the last page, right? If the princess had everything from the beginning, there wouldn't be a story. Anyone who is imperfect or incomplete can become the main character in the story.
~ Unknown
There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic mouse or teacup, but they do not have girlfriends. God forbid Snow White should give Sleeping Beauty a little support. Let's review: princesses avoid female bonding. Their goals are to be saved by a prince, get married, and be taken care of the rest of their lives.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Know what it is to be a child? It is to be something very different from the man of today. It is to have a spirit yet streaming from the waters of Baptism; it is to believe in belief; it is to be so little that elves can reach to whisper in your ear; it is to turn pumpkins into coaches, and mice into horses, lowness into loftiness, and nothing into everything, for each child had its fairy godmother in its soul.
~ Percy Bysshe Shelley