Fairy tales - Dual-Language Quotes That Speak to the Heart

So when she looked in the mirror one day, and saw the beginning of thorny protrusions on her legs, a slight greenish tinge to her skin, she sighed. It was inevitable. - The Monster In Her Bedroom, Havok Magazine, Issue 1.1 — Katherine Valdez

Fairy tales were stupid. And dangerous. — Melody Mayer The Nannies

Fairy tales were not my escape from reality as a child; rather, they were my reality - for mine was a world in which good and evil were not abstract concepts, and like fairy-tale heroines, no magic would save me unless I had the wit and heart and courage to use it widely. — Terri Windling

He reads histories and mythologies and fairy tales, wondering why it seems that only girls are ever swept away from their mundane lives on farms by knights or princes or wolves. It strikes him as unfair to not have the same fanciful opportunity himself. And he is not in the position to do any rescuing of his own. During the hours spent watching the sheep as they wander aimlessly around their fields, he even wishes that someone would come and take him away, but wishes on sheep appear to work better than wishes on stars. — Erin Morgenstern The Night Circus

Did I ever tell you the difference between a Northern fairy tale and a Southern one?" she asked him, indulging herself and letting her head rest on his shoulder. God, he felt good. Her man. Where her...

Ah-now you think I have been lying to you, that this is only a story. It has a king in it. And while a story with Death might be true, a story with a king in it is always a fairy tale. But remember,...

It is winter now,and the roses are blooming again,their petals bright against the snow.My father died last April;my sisters no longer write,except at the turning of the year,content with their fine...

Today Birthdays

1833 - Robert Green Ingersoll 1936 - Andre Dubus III 1957 - David Henry Hwang 1946 - Marilyn vos Savant 1950 - Steve Wozniak 1970 - Charles M. Blow 1973 - Kristin Armstrong 1992 - Tomi Lahren 1823 - Charlotte Mary Yonge 1925 - Carl T. Rowan 1975 - Ben Elliot 1944 - Frederick W. Smith 1953 - Hulk Hogan 1965 - Viola Davis 1975 - Carolyn Murphy 1932 - Peter Eisenman 1865 - Gifford Pinchot 1957 - Masayoshi Son 1969 - Ashley Jensen 1985 - Jacqueline Fernandez 1986 - Pablo Sandoval 1949 - David Rubenstein 1969 - Joshua Prince-Ramus

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...

If I turned towards books, it was because they were the only sanctuary I knew, one I needed in order...

We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

Hope for some means its loss for others; when the hopeless regain some hope, those in power--the...

The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...

if you don't understand something, you can't approximate it. You're really just guessing.

Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....

Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...

Categories »

Today Birthdays

Popular quotes

Categories