#tales

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #tales




Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them . . . if only to reach but a few.


James D. Maxon


#reaching-people #tales #writing-from-the-heart #writing-life #writing-philosophy

But wishes are only granted in fairy tales.


Simone Elkeles


#bhie #fairy-tales #fiction #on-fiction #perfect-chemistry

There was once a young man who wished to gain his Heart’s Desire.


Neil Gaiman


#fairy-tales #fantasy #fantasy

Once I learned, I went online and ordered every romance novel I could find. They're fairy tales for grown-ups.


Gena Showalter


#fairy-tales #romance-novels #novel

Classic fairy tales do not deny the existence of heartache and sorrow, but they do deny universal defeat.


Greenhaven Press


#fantasy #fantasy

So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow? If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks.


James Cañón


#humor #james-cañón #magic-realism #mariquita #tales-from-the-town-of-widows

The middle son gets a magic donkey. When you shout the word: "Bricklebrit!", it spews gold pieces out of... And I quote: ... its front and back. Yes, folks. Thing I Love #4: the Bricklebrit Donkey. You shout a word, and gold comes flying out its butt. Fairy tales don't get much better than that.


Sarah Beth Durst


#humor #humor

...if your love were a grain of sand, mine would be a universe of beaches.


William Goldman


#romance #the-princess-bride #william-goldman #love

It's just that, right now, I want to hear you promise me that if we do run out of time and I go mad, like Miranda, it ends with me. The curse ends here, because our baby will be safe. You will make that happen. Isn't that so?" It took him a minute. "Yes," he said finnally. "It's so. Although, if we're just going to talk about the baby, I can think of an easier way to save her." Oh? What?" I'd just lock her up from her sixteenth birthday on." Lucy didn't laugh. "Don't think I haven't thought of that too, love. but here's the thing. That parents try that in all the fairy tales. It never works.


Nancy Werlin


#hope #love #love

...what was the good of being a movie werewolf? You howled at the moon; you couldn't remember what you did, and then somebody shot you.


Anne Rice


#werewolf-tales #wolf-man #funny