#fairytale

Nothing was easy, and sometimes she failed, and sometimes she thought that the fairy stories were right, that there must indeed be easier ways of living happily ever after; but defeat is a poor ending to any tale, so she kept trying. ↗

— Sonya Hartnett

#hardship #inspirational #life #inspirational

Great courage was required to engage in such an adventure. But George was in love and Freeheart was faithful. And as the most delightful of poets says “What cannot Friendship guided by sweet Love? ↗

— Anatole France

#courage

I'm a hopeless romantic and I believe that you can find love in many different places and be very conflicted. 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

#complicated #different #different places #discovered #fairytale

I didn't break into comics to write fairytales or crime comics. ↗

— Mark Millar

#comics #crime #fairytales #i #into

Fantasy is storytelling with the beguiling power to transform the impossible into the imaginable, and to reveal our own “real” world in a fresh and truth-bearing light. ↗

— Leonard S. Marcus

#fantasy #fiction #on-fiction #imagination

Pruned my subconscious. Discovered new shoots. ↗

— Sally Jo Martine

#contemporary-fairytale #fiber-art #grief #illustrated-fable #inspiration

I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings. ↗

— Joe Wright

#because #called #endings #fairytale #find

They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil. ↗

— Stephen King

#corruption #evil #fairytale #horror #beauty

Every girl pretends she is a princess at one point, no matter how little her life is like that. ↗

— Alex Flinn

#fairytale #princess #life

Khattam-Shud,' he said slowly, 'is the Arch-Enemy of all Stories, even of language itself. He is the Prince of Silence and the Foe of Speech. And because everything ends, because dreams end, stories end, life ends, at the finish of everything we use his name. "It's finished," we tell one another, "it's over. Khattam-Shud: The End. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#fairytales #stories #dreams