#fairy

Fairy tales and folk tales are for children and childlike people, not because they are little and inconsequential, but because they are as enormous as life itself. ↗

— Anthony Esolen

#fairy-tales #imagination

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in the truth that is taught by life. ↗

— Friedrich von Schiller

#life

I've discovered as I've grown up that life is far more complicated than you think it is when you're a kid. It isn't just a straightforward fairytale. ↗

— Rachel McAdams

#life #life

We love each other like matches in the dark. We don't talk, we catch fire instead ↗

— Mathias Malzieu

#love

Nobody loves only once. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#love

He longed for the deep as she longed for the night sky and for white lilies floating on water -- although she still tried to convince herself that love alone could feed her soul. ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#love

Gaea?” Leo shook his head. “Isn’t that Mother Nature? She’s supposed to have, like, flowers in her hair and birds singing around her and dear and rabbits doing her laundry.” “Leo, that’s Snow White,” Piper said. ↗

— Rick Riordan

#gaea #leo-valdez #piper-mclean #nature

Fairy tales since the beginning of recorded time, and perhaps earlier, have been “a means to conquer the terrors of mankind through metaphor. ↗

— Jack Zipes

#fantasy #terrorism

The emperor is naked!" The parade stopped. The emperor paused. A hush fell over the crowd, until one quick-thinking peasant shouted: "No, he isn't. The emperor is merely endorsing a clothing-optional lifestyle! ↗

— James Finn Garner

#emeror-s-new-clothes #emperor #fairytales #humour #politically-correct

Possibly, she thought, the pool of answers was limited. There are fewer answers in the world than questions, and if you ask me now why that is so, I must tell you that there is no answer to that question. ↗

— Antonia Michaelis

#fairytale #micha #storytelling