Fairy tales quotes

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◆ Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.

- Neil Gaiman100

◆ If you ever find yourself in the wrong story, leave.

- Mo Willems99

◆ Mother didn't understand that children aren't frightened by stories; that their lives are full of far more frightening things than those contained in fairy tales.

- Kate Morton99

◆ Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

- David Hume99

◆ There are many kinds of joy, but they all lead to one: the joy to be loved.

- Michael Ende99

◆ And in what fairy tale would John ever be any sane person's idea of Prince Charming anyway? He was the opposite of charming. More like Prince Terrifying.

- Meg Cabot99

◆ Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.

- John Connolly99

◆ Did you recently turn into a jerk or have you been one since birth?

- Priya Ardis99

◆ Can you not see, […] that fairy tales in their essence are quite solid and straightforward; but that this everlasting fiction about modern life is in its nature essentially incredible? Folk-lore means that the soul is sane, but that the universe is wild and full of marvels. Realism means that the world is dull and full of routine, but that the soul is sick and screaming. The problem of the fairy tale is-what will a healthy man do with a fantastic world? The problem of the modern novel is-what will a madman do with a dull world? In the fairy tales the cosmos goes mad; but the hero does not go mad. In the modern novels the hero is mad before the book begins, and suffers from the harsh steadiness and cruel sanity of the cosmos.

- G.K. Chesterton99

◆ Do I look like I want to be involved in your teen love saga? Ask someone who cares.

- Priya Ardis99

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

- Susan Wiggs99

◆ Do not lose hope - what you seek will be found.

- Neil Gaiman99

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

- William Goldman99

◆ Why did you wear heels? How are you supposed to fight a gargoyle in what you're wearing?

- Priya Ardis99

◆ He was walking into Faerie, in search of a fallen star, with no idea how he would find the star, nor how to keep himself safe and whole as he tried. He looked back and fancied that he could see the lights of Wall behind him, wavering and glimmering as if in a heat-haze, but still inviting.

- Neil Gaiman99