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- Nov 07, 2020
Fairy Tale Quotes
Lines on fairy tales, magic, and where fantasy meets real life.
These fairy tale quotes explore the gap between storybook magic and everyday life, including moments when reality itself starts to feel like a Fairy story. Other lines celebrate genre-blending retellings and mash-ups of classic tales.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not sure if it's fair to call it a 'fairy tale,' but I really loved 'Mulan,' the Disney film. It was my favorite. I guess it's not really a fairy tale, but you do get Eddie Murphy as a dragon.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the fairy tale the painting represents the here and now. The book is actually divided into five sections, through which the key character, the muse, leads us.
- Bored
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took lots of photographs and had planned to write a treatise on how it worked, but I quickly got bored with that idea and wrote a scientific fairy tale instead.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm so excited to see 'Horns' because it's so many different genres in one film. It's a sci-fi, it's a love story, it's a horror movie, it's a fairy tale.
- Nov 07, 2020
I have that thing in my stomach where I just need to keep striving for things. In my mind, I want the fairy tale.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the Greeks and Romans considered myths, we consider fairy tales. We can see how very clearly the myths, which emanated from all cultures, had a huge influence on the development of the modern fairy tale.
- Fairy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Divorce in a young-adult novel means what being orphaned meant in a fairy tale: vulnerability, danger, unwanted independence.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
- Fairy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020