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The country people, indeed, did not always clearly distinguish between the Fairies and the dead. They called them both the 'Silent People'; and the Milky Way they thought was the path along which the dead were carried to Fairyland.


Hope Mirrlees


#fairies #fairy #fairyland #silent-people #the-dead

Träume und Märchen waren ihr eigentlicher Lebensinhalt, dachte ich jetzt. Deshalb hat sie sich auch umgebracht, dachte ich, weil ein Mensch, der nur Träume und Märchen sich zu seinem Lebensinhalt gemacht hat, in dieser Welt nicht überleben kann, nicht überleben darf, dachte ich.


Thomas Bernhard


#dreams #escapism #fairytales #life #suicide

Children played at those stories; they dreamed about them. They took them to heart and acted as if to live inside them.


Gregory Maguire


#fairytales #storytelling #dreams

But I felt like I'd made a journey to the land of fairytales only to find out that the magical world was identical to the real one. Even in fairytales, the sun still burns, sand still works its way into your bikini bottoms, and the diner next door to your motel still scorches toast.


Holly Schindler


#fairytales #reality #dreams

The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they filled forty–one volumes of a massive publication called the Cabinet des Fées. Charles Perrault is the French fairy tale writer whom history has singled out for attention, but the majority of tales in the Cabinet des Fées were penned by women writers who ran and attended the leading salons: Marie–Catherine d’Aulnoy, Henriette Julie de Murat, Marie–Jeanne L'Héritier, and numerous others. These were educated women with an unusual degree of social and artistic independence, and within their use of the fairy tale form one can find distinctly subversive, even feminist subtext.


Terri Windling


#fairy-tales-for-adults #feminism #magical-stories #stories #education

He's a gypsy killer. He has a special gypsy killing knife.


Coco J. Ginger


#breaking-up #breakups #broken-heart #broken-hearted #broken-hearted-quotes

It must be understood that in some cases the process by which a god or goddess degenerates into a fairy may occupy centuries, and that in the passage of generations such an alteration may be brought about in appearance and traits as to make it seem impossible that any relationship actually exists between the old form and the new. This may be accounted for by the circumstance that in gradually assuming the traits of fairyhood the god or goddess may also have taken on the characteristics of fairies which Already existed in the minds of the folk, the elves of a past age, who were already elves at a period when he or she still flourished in the full vigour of godhead. For in one sense Faerie represents a species of limbo, a great abyss of traditional material, into which every kind of ancient belief came to be cast as the acceptance of one new faith after another dictated the abandonment of forms and ideas unacceptable to its doctrines. The difference between god and fairy is indeed the difference between religion and folk-lore.


Lewis Spence


#fairy #folklore #gods #mythology #age

David tells me that fairies never say 'We feel happy': what they say is, 'We feel dancey'.


J.M. Barrie


#david #fairy #fantasy #funny #happy

The strong belief can make things out of imagination. But that can also make facts as if they were fairy tales.


Toba Beta


#facts #fairy-tales #imagination #imagination

And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.


Meg Cabot


#fairy-tales #humor #prince-charming #terror #death