#iri

The willingness to undertake such action cannot be based on certainties, but on those possibilities glimpsed in a reading of history different from the customary painful recounting of human cruelties. In such a reading we can find not only war but resistance to war, not only injustice but rebellion against injustice, not only selfishness but self-sacrifice, not only silence in the fact of tyranny but defiance, not only callousness but compassion. Human beings show a broad spectrum of qualities, but it is the worst of these that are usually emphasized, and the result, too often, is to dishearten us, diminish our spirit. And yet, historically, that spirit refuses to surrender. ↗

— Howard Zinn

#history #hope #injustice #optimisim #spirit

People told me I can't dress like a fairy. I say, I'm in a rock band and I cand do whatever the hell I want! ↗

— Evanescence

#evanescence #fairies

Let us proceed under the assumption that the fairy folk do exist, and that I am not a gibbering moron. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#fairy #moron #fairies

At every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale and the other in the abyss. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#paulo-coelho #fairies

The way to read a fairy tale is to throw yourself in. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#fairies

I’m going to kill you one day,” I told him as we hurried after Grimalkin, back into the swampy marshland. It was not an idle threat. Puck just laughed. “Yeah. You and everyone else, prince. Join the club. ↗

— Julie Kagawa

#fairies #puck #fairies

In the fairy tale you mentioned last night, I would probably be the villain. But it's possible the villain would treat you far better than the prince would have. ↗

— Lisa Kleypas

#fairytaleoppy #harry #lisa-kleypas #fairies

In the land of Ingary where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of the three. Everyone knows you are the one who will fail first, and worst, if the three of you set out to seek your fortunes. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#once-upon-a-time #fairies

Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.' That depends... on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen. ↗

— Jane Yolen

#perspective #fairies

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

#stories #fairies