#fairy

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #fairy




at the center of every fairy tale lay a truth that gave the story its power.


Susan Wiggs


#fairy-tales

You should treat a muse like a fairy.


Paulo Coelho


#like #muse #should #treat #you

Fancy the happiness of Pinocchio on finding himself free! Without saying yes or no, he fled from the city and set out on the road that was to take him back to the house of the lovely Fairy.


Carlo Collodi


#city #fairy #fancy #finding #fled

I cannot come with you, my prince," he said with great tenderness, as he kneeled over the sleeping Neriah and placed the chain around his neck. "But perhaps, when you sleep, you will dream of me." He touched his hand to Neriah's forehead and whispered, "Now, forget me.


Shira Anthony


#fairy-tale #fantasy-romance #gay #gay-romance #dreams

I haven't finished revisiting Sleeping Beauty. As a faerie tale, that one is rife with inherent difficulties. After all, the world doesn't stop just because one person is asleep.


Anna Sheehan


#legends #sleeping-beauty #young-adult #beauty

One of the best things about folklore and fairy tales is that the best fantasy is what you find right around the corner, in this world. That's where the old stuff came from.


Terri Windling


#around #best #came #corner #fairy

Nature is a book, a letter, a fairy tale (in the philosophical sense) or whatever you want to call it.


Johann Georg Hamann


#call #fairy #fairy tale #letter #nature

There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.


Stephen Hawking


#afterlife #computers #dark #fairy #heaven

The original fairy tale was about the youngest sister going into a room in the castle and finding all the bodies of the wives that came before her - she is confronted with truth, thinking about how often we think we know people and we really don't.


Alice Hoffman


#before #bodies #came #castle #confronted

Here and there and not just in books we catch glimpses of a world of once upon a time and they lived happily ever after, of a world where there is a wizard to give courage and a heart, an angel with a white stone that has written on it our true and secret name, and it is so easy to dismiss it all that it is hardly worth bothering to do. ... But if the world of the fairy tale and our glimpses of it here and there are only a dream, they are one of the most haunting and powerful dreams that the world has ever dreamed...


Frederick Buechner


#courage #dream #fairy-tale #happily-ever-after #haunting