Fairy Tales Quotes

…while the outside world was full of danger, I knew my interior. I was certain that I could oust an intruder there.

Fairy tales are the skeletons of story, perhaps. Reading them often provides an uneasy sensation—a gnawing familiarity—that comforting yet supernatural awareness of living inside a story.

If you die fighting, I want to die fighting with you.

This is what happens, when things are not quite a fairy tale.You go into the woods to find your story. If you are brave, if you are fortunate, you walk out of them to find your life.

This is the thing about fairy tales: You have to live through them, before you get to happily ever after. That ever after has to be earned, and not everyone makes it that far.

She was so lovely, it hurt his chest to gaze at her, especially knowing she was courageous and clever too.

Even in the wood, there was a right road and a wrong one. All the most terrifying fairy tales inevitably began with some foolish innocent (or two) straying from the path. Then anything might happen.

I like stories where women save themselves.

Don't ever let anyone tell you that fairy tales aren't real. I drink a potion made from magic beans every day, and it brings me back to life.

Don’t you know that everybody’s got a Fairyland of their own?

Cinderella proof that a new pair of shoes can change your life.

Pan took the joke good-naturedly, probably deciding it wasn't a good idea to argue with a fifteen-year-old who had just pulled two people up ten feet.

There is no greater achievement than being a grandfather who tells fairy tales to grandchildren.

Tonight was a perfect illustration of why Cinderella and the Prince get married twenty-four hours after they meet. Because when you're living with your stepmother, there is no happily ever after.

But life is not a fairy tale. It's brighter and darker, longer and briefer, duller and more magical. It's full of contradictions, but one thing it's not is neat.

A child’s best friend is often the one telling bedtime stories.

He was a Crosby, Stills and Nash song. He loved the one he was with. He was casual with a capital C.

If you like the fairy tales, visit the old towns!

I’m going to drag you down to the basement, kneel at your feet, rip your jeans down and I’m going to make you come so hard with my tongue the whole damn pub will think you’re being murdered.

He smiled that smile again. How could something so lazy do such busy things to her body?

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same.

Don't be afraid to grow up, Peter. It's only a trap if you forget how to fly.

Not all who are lost are lost forever.

Princess, princess, youngest daughter, Open up and let me in!Or else your promise by the waterIsn’t worth a rusty pin.Keep your promise, royal daughter, Open up and let me in!

We're a couple of travelers!" I called up to her. "I'm Briony, and this is Ella!""Grammy said I ought not to talk to strangers!" she called back."We're not strangers!" Ella shouted. "We're with the u

A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar.

You don't feed nightingales on fairy-tales

Trying to pump breath into a fairy tale is as arduous and tragic as ancient Greek theatre.

I squared my shoulders, trying to ignore the fact that I was standing in the apartment of the sea witch, wearing a fairy-tale prom gown, waiting for the attack of the mermaids.

I marched to the head Elf. “Where’s the frog?

If you cannot see the fineness in my Hammer, you'd best look at him with better eyes.

You’re too old for fairy tales, ” Baasen said.

The saddest thing of growing up is people no longer believe in fairy tales.

Because, no matter how old we get, we always need to believe in fairytales.

I'm not a princess but Ryan is a knight, he just belongs to someone else.

When you’re late in a fairy tale, people wind up dead. And not true-love’s-kiss, glass-coffin-nap-time dead. Really dead, the kind of dead you don’t recover from.

He was furious with himself for having lived these last days on a wish. On a lie. A kiss does not make the future. Love alone does not make a life.

There were lots of things in this lifetime that I'd doubted, precious little I'd known for sure. But in that moment, I knew I would save her, or die trying.

Fairy tales die hard in the minds and hearts of some girls. Quinn

I'm here because all fairy tales take place in the woods, King Cole, even those that don't.

And, they would still be alive today...If they hadn't died, that is

Sure. If she gets mugged, she can just flute them to death.

...remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

He rarely saw a doorway without advancing through it as if he owned it. Since he owned a good many doorways, he would have pointed out that this was a reasonable assumption.

Not all fairy tales have happily ever afters, some just have afters.

Nowhere hidden has ever turned away a goodheart guest.

...she has been bewitched by a wicked sorceress, and will not regain her beauty until she is my wife.''Does she say so? Well if you believe that you may drink cold water and think it bacon'.

...Myths aren’t fairy tales or legends—they’re an honest attempt to explain mysteries...

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.

Seeing the transformation in Aaron made me wonder how it would feel to have someone-even a not-so-nice guy like Aaron- look at me the way he looked at Anjali.